Bengaluru To Get State-Of-The-Art Cybercrime Hub. It Has An Infosys Link

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“Law breakers use more technology than us. We have to be one step ahead”: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara.
The state police today signed an agreement with Infosys Foundation, the philanthropy wing of Infosys, to set up a state-of-the-art unit to tackle cybercrime. The anti-cybercrime hub will be called the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation Training and Research (CCITR) and it will come up in Bengaluru.
“The centre aims to train police, prosecution, judiciary and other departments in handling technology investigations and create standard operating procedures in cybercrime investigations,” Infosys Foundation said in a statement.

The agreement to set up the centre has been signed between the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Karnataka police, Infosys Foundation and the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) that is owned by IT industry body Nasscom.

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