pune the cyber crime investigation lab at the shivajinagar police headquarters run by the nasscom and the data security council of india dsci in association with the pune police is all set for a massive upgradation drive the department of information technology dit government of india recently sanctioned a grant to the nasscom so that it could refurbish the lab and make it more in tune with the current genre of cyber crimes the ugradation project which is supported by other industry partners will be completed in the next six weeks the financial aid for upgradation and running operations will extend for three yearsthe lab has hitherto trained 2478 police officials in fulltime fiveday courses focussing on cyber crimes and investigation methods as well as more than 3000 officers across the country in cyber crime investigation cyber forensic and cyber intelligence the lab has also trained approximately 250 judges and public prosecutors in cyber crimethe lab which was set up with the objective to improve cyber skills of lawenforcing agency personnel was set up in january 2007 it will now be equipped with stateoftheart cyber forensic tools and equipment such as a cyber forensic workstation cdr analysis software mobile forensic toolkit password tools to examine encrypted computers and software and live system analysis among other things pratap reddy senior director cyber security nasscom also an ips officer said the lab will now be upgraded to meet the emerging challenges in the field of cyber crime the new equipment will enable law enforcement officers to investigate the cyber crimesreddy said at present police officials are given basic training using a number of free internet and forensic tools the current upgradation will equip the lab with more sophisticated forensic and analytical tools the 21seater lab will be upgraded to support multiple operating systems till now we were only running windowsbased training programmes we realised that investigating officers need to be acquainted with the myriad operating systems training on which will come to force soon said reddyparesh degaonkar zonal manager nasscom added that plans to increase the number of police officials trained in the lab are also afoot we plan to increase this number by twofold after the refurbishing this number has to be increased considering that police officials at the higher levels are transferred from one region to another thus we need to have more officers trained in cyber crime not only in pune mumbai and thane but also in other cities such as nagpur kolhapur aurangabad and nashik cyber crimes are constantly changing and so is their size as well as the profile of the people who commit these crimes said degaonkarsandip gadiya project manager at the lab added cyber forensic devices such as write blocking devices forensic softwares disc cloning devices and highend servers will also be added to the lab explaining the utility of the cyber forensic workstation gadiya said it is a computer that forensically analyses data from suspect hard disk or computing deviceadditional commissioner of police crime