To create awareness among students, the Delhi Police on Tuesday organised “Cyber Aware”, an interactive session on Cyber Safety at Multi-Purpose Hall, University Ground in Delhi University. Around 3000 students from Delhi University and various schools of North Delhi attended the session. A short film, “Be Cyber safe” was also screened on this occasion.
Amulya Patnaik, Commissioner of Police was the guest of honour and he empahsised about the need to generate awareness among people. “The session was aimed to create awareness and familiarize the students, being potential victims due to their inquisitiveness, curiosity and inadequate awareness, about online threats and danger lurking in Cyber space, besides precautions to be taken to make the user less vulnerable”, Nupur Prasad, North DCP said.
Patnaik appreciated North District’s outreach initiative to educate students on some serious hidden threats and highlighted that cyber crimes have tendency to leave long term emotional trauma on the victims and basic information on Cyber awareness is a must for all the visitors of Cyber space, in present age. Delhi Police has set up a strong mechanism at district and police station level, and at centralized Cyber Crime Cell, to combat Cyber crime.
“Basic fundamental of security, “Be wary of strangers!”, as we are vulnerable without coming face to face, is also applicable to Cyber world,” said CP. Rahul Tyagi, Co-founder, Lucideus (Digital Security) and Jiten Jain, expert on cyber activities advised people to have secure passwords which should preferably be a kind of shortened statement, avoid downloading of pirated softwares, avoid clicking on dubious links, and avoid using free public wifi, to protect themselves from being held.
CP also released “Be Cyber Safe”, a booklet on threats in Cyber space; and precautions to avoid vulnerability.