India Faces Severe Shortage of Cyber Security Pros

India currently has 22,000 certified cyber security professionals, but will need 4.7 lakh by 2015 to protect its IT infrastructure.

Close on the heels of the Chinese incursion in Ladakh and hacking of India's defence websites, cyber security experts have warned that the huge difference in number of trained web security professionals in the two nations could spell doom for India.

Analysts said that India currently has around 22,000 certified cyber security professionals, which is significantly lesser than the requirement of 77,000 personnel. The current number is miniscule when compared to the nearly 25 million "cyber warriors" in China. According to recent data, India would need 4.7 lakh cyber security professionals by 2015 to protect its IT infrastructure.

"It is highly likely that the third world war will be fought not with armies but in the cyber world and India is not prepared for such attacks," said Akash Agarwal, country manager of International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC Council), one of the biggest global organisations dealing in certification and training on cyber security.

"We are very vulnerable right now. Even smaller countries like North Korea have around 15,000 cyber security professionals, which is not far behind India considering the size of the two countries," added Agarwal, whose office in based in Hyderabad.

Agarwal's fears do not seen unfounded as it was only in March that reports of suspected Chinese hackers breaking into the computers of India's top military organisation, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) surfaced. This was touted as among the biggest security breaches in the country.

Analysts said that around 42 million Indians become victims of cyber crime annually and 85% of websites, both public and private, have complained about being hacked at least once. Several cases even go unreported as companies do not wish to admit their vulnerabilities. 

"The people who we use to solve our information security-related problems are not officially trained. More certified personnel are needed in order to be more prepared," said Srinivas Prasad, general secretary of Cyberabad Security Council.

Meanwhile, experts pointed out that Hyderabad could soon be a hub for ethical hacking and cyber security, with increasing interest among students and growing opportunities. EC Council has tied up with the Institute of Advanced Network Technology (IANT) which has over 100 centres across the country to train nearly 10,000 students in ethical hacking. It has also decided to tie up with 50 universities in India by the end of this year. As per a report by Gartner in 2011, the IT security market in India is estimated to be around USD 218 million (2012), with an annual growth rate of 20-30 percent.

"Information security is the hot course to pick and more than 50 per cent students are interested in the subject," said Suresh Pabboju, head, department of IT at CBIT, adding that companies visiting the campus for placements too favour those who are trained in the subject.

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Cloud Computing in E-commerce Industry

Within 10 years, 80% of all computing, storage, and e-commerce done worldwide may take place in the cloud predict analysts, in what’s been termed the third phase of Internet computing in the modern era.

The first phase of computing combined software and operating systems into one terminal allowing basic communication through devices such as email.

The second phase allowed the user to connect to the World Wide Web containing millions of websites, which in the mid-1990s saw Internet usage increase 100-fold in just two years.

In the present third phase, everything will live in the cloud – including your data and software. Further, by 2020, there could be in excess of 100 billion devices and sensors accessing these remote data centers in the cloud. Only a small amount, approximately 1.4 billion, will be personal computers.

The progression away from the mainframe to personal computers is now being superseded by the dual arrival of the Smartphone and cloud computing.

In each step the underlying structure of computing has become more distributed.

This has profound implications for how consumers, vendors and suppliers will interact inside the e-commerce channel over the next decade.

Defining a cloud service

The term “cloud computing” has been hotly contested, drawing both derision and praise from different sectors of the I.T. community. At its core, the term refers to the outsourcing of data centers and application services to a remote provider under a pay-as-you-go contract.

 This ‘metered’ approach lowers costs and reduces complexity, simultaneously allowing the business to consume additional services “on-demand”.

Hybrid models are also possible whereby a business may build its own private cloud and temporarily access additional public cloud services if it so requires.

An example of this could include an e-commerce site, which leverages further cloud services to deal with the effects of a successful social media campaign without having to upgrade its infrastructure.

However, the term cloud computing does have further meanings in addition to those defined above.  

These include Software as a Service (Saas), Platform as a Service (Paas), and Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas).

In simple terms, SaaS refers to an end user accessing a remote product or e-commerce service over the Internet.   These could include a remote CRM such as Salesforce or a data center offered by Amazon Web Services.

PaaS is geared towards developers who wish to deploy applications in the cloud and don’t want to get involved with the server infrastructure. The Google apps store is an example of this.

The final version, IaaS, allows developers maximum interaction with the underlying server infrastructure including, but not limited to, deploying back-office applications on that remote environment. 

As of 2010 the SaaS model is the most dominant and widespread cloud variant in the marketplace.

  

Benefits to e-commerce

Trust

One of biggest challenges facing e-commerce pioneers in the early days of the web turned out not to be a technical problem, but a human one.

It took time to build trust into their networks and establish a set of online credentials that made buyers feel comfortable initiating an online purchase.

With the advent of cloud computing, existing businesses and startups can immediately leverage the trust built into established cloud systems such as Google, Amazon and Salesforce.  A business can now point out to its customer base that their technical platform is managed and secured by the best cloud engineers in the world.

Cost Savings

Cost is generally one of the primary reasons for moving a business application or data center to the cloud.   While there may be a low cost associated with developing and deploying an e-commerce application, the parallel need for hardware and bandwidth may turn out to be expensive.

Generally, a cloud-based initiative on a virtualized server may save a company 80% of the costs normally associated with a traditional e-commerce roll out.

Speed

A company may be able to roll out an e-commerce application five times faster than before and begin selling immediately on the remote platform.

Scalability

Often referred to as “elastic”, these cloud services allow a business to scale quickly and support seasonal spikes in demand or those triggered by special promotions.

Security

Securing applications, physical facilities and networks is a critical consideration. 

 Many cloud vendors complete third-party certification, including ISO 27001 and SysTrust audits. Further security measures are implemented at the application, facility and network levels including data encryption, biometric screening of personnel and certification through third-party vulnerability assessment programs.

Interoperability

The explosive growth in cloud ecommerce offerings in the next few years will also see an increase in the ability to share information between clouds and communities of clouds. 

Leading-edge cloud vendors will offer a standards-based framework, which allows programmatic access for users, partners and others who want to leverage additional functionality from within the cloud.

Conclusion

The term cloud computing is no longer an industry buzzword and signals a transformational shift in how business data and e-commerce applications will be stored, accessed, shared, and transacted online.  

In tandem, mobile applications and services will be provisioned from the cloud offering a myriad of ways for the end user to engage e-commerce operations.

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Integration of Cloud Computing and Social Media

These days it seems nearly impossible to talk about the enterprise without mentioning the words “social” or “cloud.” At first glance, social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and cloud computing services like Salesforce.com appear to be separate and distinct technologies from a business as well as technical standpoint. One thing that both technologies have in common is that their growing popularity is putting pressure on enterprises to join the bandwagon and adopt them.

On the social side of things, sites like Facebook and Twitter allow companies to communicate marketing messages to customers through direct channels while professional networking sites like LinkedIn streamline the process for recruiting talent.

Cloud computing vendors like Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services, meanwhile, provide everything from CRM and ERP applications to platforms for deploying applications and infrastructure and storage. Because these services are delivered over the web, enterprises don’t need to buy, install, or manage any software or hardware, but can take advantage of the elasticity and scalability of the cloud.

With so much buzz around the social web and the cloud, it’s hard not to get caught up in these latest tech trends and be swayed by promises of increased productivity and reduced costs. Before “going social” or signing up for a Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), however, enterprises need to consider exactly how such technologies will add value to their businesses.

As standalone technologies, social networking sites and cloud computing services do have potential benefits for the enterprise. But adopting and implementing them without careful planning or a well-defined strategy only adds architectural complexity to the enterprise and creates silos of data and processes. A crucial factor that is often overlooked when deploying a social or cloud strategy is integration.

In order to take full advantage of the social web and cloud resources, enterprises need to integrate across the social web, cloud and enterprise. A sales team might be able to collaborate using social networking technologies, but they also need access to enterprise data residing in on-premise legacy systems and increasingly, the cloud. The key is to connect data and logic from different sources with social tools to facilitate, rather than impede, the collaborative productivity of users and the flow of business processes.

Salesforce.com’s Chatter and SAP’s Sales OnDemand are steps in the right direction. Both products are collaborative social platforms that provide access to enterprise data in traditional ERP systems.

The changing nature of enterprise architectures, however, demands a sophisticated platform that can go beyond point-to-point integrations and connect the enterprise with the cloud and social tools in complex patterns. At the end of the day, social software and cloud services might be attracting a great deal of attention, but enterprises need to get their heads out of the cloud and focus on integration.

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