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Coming, cyber security guidelines

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/smartbuy/tech-news/coming-cyber-security-guidelines/article5986358.ece?ref=wl_features

CHENNAI, MAY 7:  

The National Cyber Safety and Security Standards will release a comprehensive set of guidelines for private and public sector companies to secure their online data.

Slated for unveiling by the end of this calendar year, the guidelines will help banks, government enterprises and private firms privy to sensitive material guard their data on the Internet, S Mohan, Chairman, National Cyber Safety and Security Standards, told Business Line at an event here today......

Trendy “Cybersecurity” Versus Traditional “Information Security” Two Sides of the Same Security Coin - The National Law Review

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/trendy-cybersecurity-versus-traditional-information-security-two-sides-same-security

Cybersecurity has become a dominant topic of the day.  The Snowden revelations, the mega-data breaches of 2013, the pervasiveness of invisible online “tracking” and the proliferation of “ data broker” trading in personal data – all feed into the fears of individuals who struggle to understand how their personal information is collected, used and protected.  Over the past year, these forces have begun to merge an old concern by individuals about the security of their personal information into a broader, more universal fear that the country’s infrastructure lay vulnerable.