Indian Cyber Law Regime And Significance Of It Audit

Krishnakant Deshmukh, National Institute of Securities Market, Maharashtra National Law University

Introduction to Cyber Crime

The world is now divided in to two ecosystems one is physical and another is cyber or digital. The later ecosystem exists parallel to prior one, but posses no similar limitation. The Digital World is sophisticated and none less than wizard world as it posses immense power of manipulation in real world. We often wonder what is the purpose of existence of this web-network. Initially it was experiment for communication but slowly it unleashed its true potential. It has been 4 decades and now internet is integral part of each soul that breath on this planet. But internet is not typically limited to few websites only, it is complicated infrastructure consisting of routine webpages, Deep internet , and dark web. These are uncharted places of network where government, Security agencies, even black-market smugglers wanders. It all implies that internet is borderless territory. It is sophisticated technology which serves every user from government, private entities to terrorists.