Chennai: The ISACA Chennai Chapter and the ISACA India Task Force are hosting the ISACA India Conference, (IIC) 2013, a two-day event themed "IT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance - Current and Future Trends". Scheduled for 28-29 November 2013, IIC 2013 will focus on topical issues being faced by the IT industry and will share guidance and good practices for dealing with complex challenges and opportunities at a strategic and thematic level.

New Delhi : Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) here today released recommendations on ‘Full Mobile Number Portability (Pan-India Number Portability)’ in the country.

In accordance with the provisions contained in the National Telecom Policy-2012 regarding “One Nation- Full Mobile Number Portability”, TRAI received a reference from the DoT vide its letter dated 27th Dec 2012, seeking the recommendations of TRAI under TRAI Act for implementing full Mobile Number Portability i.e. MNP across licensed service areas.

New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has cautioned banks and financial institutions against use of unregistered Telemarketers for promoting their business in violation of provisions of “The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulations, 2010”. The Authority said here today that despite actions taken by it, it continues to receive a large number of complaints from consumers against banks, insurance companies, builders, etc. for making calls/ SMSs organized through unregistered telemarketers.

Mumbai : The Reserve Bank of India has imposed monetary penalty on 22 banks for violation of its instructions, among other things, on Know Your Customer/Anti Money Laundering.

New Delhi : Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and IT released the National Cyber Security Policy, here today. Speaking on the occasion, he underlined that this policy should be seen as about protecting of information, such as personal information, financial/banking information, sovereign data etc. He said that information empowers, and in order to empower people with information, we need to secure the information/data. He also flagged the need to distinguish between data which can freely flow and data which needs to be protected.