“The country needs a detailed regulatory, legal and policy-enabling regime”
Risks in cyber space have the potential to damage national security, businesses and individual civil liberties. With the objective of having an integrated approach towards policing, the Ministry of Home Affairs has come up with a 2000 crores project – crime and criminal tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS). this important project is scheduled to be in place by 2012. CCTNS-CAS is being developed on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) which shall enable the seamless sharing of information on crimes and criminals within police departments and across various other external agencies like transport departments, Passport authorities, courts and Jails.
CCTNS addresses several functional and technical challenges with respect to data standardisation, generation of reports, redundancy in data entry, mapping of major and minor crime heads. cctNS aims to facilitate storage, collation, analysis and transmission/sharing of crime and criminals related information at the police station, district, state and central levels. National crime records Bureau, on behalf of the Ministry of Home Affairs, is the nodal agency for overseeing the implementation of this project. cctNS can act as a catalyst and technology-enabled agent for initiating a change in Police functioning.
The security architecture proposed for the cAS application shall ensure complete authenticity and integrity of data and transactions. Access control procedures shall cover all stages in the life-cycle of user access, from the initial registration of new users to the final de-registration of users, who no longer require access to information systems and services. Special attention shall be given, where appropriate, to the needs to control the allocation of privileged access rights. Government needs to create a national body to evolve a fine balance between cyber data protection and privacy of citizens as the society and businesses become a part of the huge electronic ecosystem. cyber security can be achieved if interwoven with corporate governance.
