New Delhi: The Government has notified the policy for providing preference to domestically manufactured electronic products in procurement due to security considerations and in Government procurement vide Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) Notification No.8(78)/2010-IPHW dated 10.2.2012. This is one of the strategies contained in the National Policy on Electronics (NPE 2012) approved by the Government for promoting the domestic Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) Industry in the country.

Mumbai: ISACA, a non-profit global association of more than 100,000 IT audit, security, risk and governance professionals, today released a guide to help Indian enterprises secure sensitive data and comply with India's IT Act. Titled Securing Sensitive Personal Data or Information Under India's IT Act Using COBIT 5, the book will educate business and IT leaders and other key stakeholders on the importance of securing sensitive personal data or information (SPDI) as required by India's Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008.

New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance which examined the Companies Bill, 2009 and the Companies Bill, 2011 had recommended that the National Advisory Committee on Accounting and Auditing Standards (NACAAS), proposed in the Companies Bill, 2009, be institutionalized not only as a body for setting up auditing standards but also as a quasi-regulatory body for generally supervising the quality of audit undertaken.

New Delhi: A meeting of the Cyber Regulation Advisory Committee was held today (29.11.2012) under the chairmanship of Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Communication and Information Technology to discuss the issues related to the Information Technology Act, 2000. This meeting was attended by representatives of Government, Intermediaries, Industry Associations as well as Members of civil society.

Bangalore: The largest conference for technical women in India, GRACE HOPPER CELEBRATION of WOMEN in COMPUTING INDIA is presenting its first ever Hackathon for Women in collaboration with ThoughtWorks Social Impact Program and Yahoo. The Hackathon will be held on December 12th, 2012, from 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM at the Lalit Ashok Hotel in Bangalore. It will provide women participants a platform to collaborate and to write code on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), contributing to humanitarian projects.