iCafe Manager”, a new software, will manage and monitor cyber cafes in the city and adjoining districts. The new software would be installed in all cyber cafes in the range as part of a security measure by police to control and monitor cybercrime through cyber-cafes, across the city and surrounding areas. Café owners would be provided software free of cost.
In a meeting with the cyber café owners at reserve police line here, deputy inspector general of police (DIG) Dehradun range Amit Sinha asked cybercafe owners to install iCafe Manager, the software developed by a Mumbai-based company, as soon as possible since it is a good software to control and monitor cyber crimes that records each detail about the users visiting the cafe.
Installation of the software will replace manual system of recording details of each customer visiting the cyber cafes. The software would record various details about users along with the various sites he surfed. Thus, it would also maintain record of user’s web history which is of importance for law enforcement agencies while investigating a crime and also a must to maintain by cyber café owners as per IT ACT.
The software will take care of all such issues. User details can only be edited post due verification by cyber cafes and thus tracking becomes easier. A security measure police is upbeat about “ iCafe Manager “, a software developed by Mumbai-based company called Ideacts Innovations which is a cyber café security solutions company.
Police educated all cyber café owners in their jurisdiction about the IT Act. The experts also briefed them about various type of cybercrime happening through their public computers and ways to tackle them. Police urged the café owner to install “iCafe Manager”.
Police have also collected data from all cyber cafes. “We have asked all cyber café owners to install “iCafe Manager” in all the systems at their café since the product ensures maintaining all the necessary logs of café users by the café owners and thereby abide to the IT act. From whatever we have understood so far, this looks like a useful solution.”
Cost is also not a factor since this software is being offered free of cost to all cyber cafes. He defined “iCafe Manager” as a good software to control and monitor cyber crimes. He claimed that it would help in checking cyber crimes up to large extent, if not wipe out them completely.