new delhi law enforcement and security agencies across the globe must join hands to deal with the threat posed by cyber crimes union minister kiren rijiju said here on thursdayaddressing the valedictory session of the asiapacific regional conference of the international association of chiefs of police iacp he said the existing frameworks programmes and tools were often too slow and bureaucratic to allow for a timely and effective responselaw enforcement and security agencies worldwide must collaborate to tackle the threat posed by cyber crimes he saidrijiju said law enforcement agencies that seek to keep communities safe were faced with increasing challenges of rapidly evolving technologiesrather than multiple partners investing in and developing the same highly specialised skillsets and expertise perhaps a more effective highlevel model would be for law enforcement and relevant partners to focus on distinct core competencies and to make them available to others as a service he saidthe minister said the committing cyber crime was getting easier as technology made it easy to commit crime at a faraway place in total anonymity and with global reachtools and techniques to conduct cyber crime hacking software malware can be downloaded freely there are even stepbystep video instructions online that explain how to use themin fact crimeasaservice is also being offered in dark web we can see from looking at standard consumer technology that it only takes a few iterations of a product for it to become straightforward to use he saidrijiju said the barrier to entry for cyber crime was very minimal ie just needed to access the internet in the past systems would have only been available only to technologysavvy cyber criminalsnow he said such criminal services can be bought and used by anyone regardless of their technical skills what this evolution had revealed was the extent to which other criminal activities beyond economic crime were now being supported by these infrastructuresas per our the national crime record bureau ncrb 33531 cybercrime cases were registered during 20142016in 2016 486 per cent of cyber crime cases reported were for illegal gain 5987 out of 12317 cases followed by revenge with 86 per cent 1056 cases and insult to modesty of women at 56 per cent 686 cases in 2016 cyber crime was the fourth largest crime in indiaamong the more rampant cyber crimes under indian it act various sections were tampering computer source documents publicationstransmission of obscenesexually explicit contents breach of confidentialityprivacy data theft cyber terrorismamong the cyber crime motives include illegal gain revenge insult to modesty of women extortion blackmailing sexual exploitation causing disrepute inciting hate crime against community developing own businessinterest political motives disrupt public services besides othersdirector of intelligence bureau rajiv jain also spoke on the occasion among others