Some staff inwards the Home Ministry would lookout adult man online pornographic content on the cyberspace at work, leading to malware download too compromise of computers, a one-time Home Secretary recalled on Wednesday.
At the Financial Security Conclave, GK Pillai said when senior ministry building officials used to last busy amongst meetings till slow inwards the evening, the subordinate staff downloaded all kinds of materials every bit they would accept to rest dorsum inwards the offices or post-meeting work.
“So what volition they (subordinates) do? They become too opened upwardly the Internet too they are on porn sites and download all sorts of things that come upwardly up amongst all the malware,” said Pillai, who chairs the non-profit Data Security Council of Bharat (DSCI) promoted past times Nasscom.
“When I was the Union Home Secretary almost 8-9 years ago, every lx days nosotros would detect the entire computers compromised,” added Pillai, addressing the initiative Finsec Conclave inwards Mumbai.
He said the ministry building issued a lot of directives too it was a detailed review which led to the regain of porn surfing past times the staff.
The comments came days after a suspected compromise of unopen to authorities websites. The authorities had afterwards said that the websites had non been hacked, exactly attributed the problems to a hardware glitch.
Pillai said the DSCI had made a recommendation to move into mandatory for companies’ boards to review cybersecurity too break preparedness inwards the annual study exactly that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the SEBI too the RBI were sitting on the proposal.
Referring to the Cambridge Analytica revelations that accept position social media giant Facebook inwards a spot, Pillai reminisced that the British fellowship had given a presentation nigh the same service offerings at a conference inwards New Delhi 2 years ago.
Nobody questioned the fellowship thus too it is entirely due to the arrogance of the administration which spoke nigh bribing people that they accept come upwardly nether a location today, said Pillai.
At the Financial Security Conclave, GK Pillai said when senior ministry building officials used to last busy amongst meetings till slow inwards the evening, the subordinate staff downloaded all kinds of materials every bit they would accept to rest dorsum inwards the offices or post-meeting work.
“So what volition they (subordinates) do? They become too opened upwardly the Internet too they are on porn sites and download all sorts of things that come upwardly up amongst all the malware,” said Pillai, who chairs the non-profit Data Security Council of Bharat (DSCI) promoted past times Nasscom.
“When I was the Union Home Secretary almost 8-9 years ago, every lx days nosotros would detect the entire computers compromised,” added Pillai, addressing the initiative Finsec Conclave inwards Mumbai.
He said the ministry building issued a lot of directives too it was a detailed review which led to the regain of porn surfing past times the staff.
The comments came days after a suspected compromise of unopen to authorities websites. The authorities had afterwards said that the websites had non been hacked, exactly attributed the problems to a hardware glitch.
Pillai said the DSCI had made a recommendation to move into mandatory for companies’ boards to review cybersecurity too break preparedness inwards the annual study exactly that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the SEBI too the RBI were sitting on the proposal.
Referring to the Cambridge Analytica revelations that accept position social media giant Facebook inwards a spot, Pillai reminisced that the British fellowship had given a presentation nigh the same service offerings at a conference inwards New Delhi 2 years ago.
Nobody questioned the fellowship thus too it is entirely due to the arrogance of the administration which spoke nigh bribing people that they accept come upwardly nether a location today, said Pillai.
