Chandigarh, February 20: FORENSIC examination of computer records to trace a virus attack and check data stored on computers used in crimes was one of the areas discussed on the final day of the conference on e-security, cyber crime and law, organised by the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Public Administration, Punjab, today. The conference was organised, in association with the Society for Promotion of Information Technology Chandigarh, under the aegis of Department of IT, Chandigarh.

A UGC senior research fellow at Panjab University, Jyoti Rattan, along with Vijay Rattan, presented a paper on cyber crime against women. She said the absence of judicial activism and deficient cyber laws against the fast-spreading scourge of cyber violence against women, could not be ignored. Digital revolution was proving to be a double-edged weapon against women. ‘‘On one side, it is providing tremendous benefits to women. On the other, its misuse is violating their human rights. It is aggravating conventional forms of violence like trafficking and female foeticide.

Vishwajeet Deshmukh, CEO of TAS Integrators, spoke on network forensics while Mahesh Singh, of Network Security Solutions, spoke on components of computer forensics. SP (operations) H.G.S. Dhaliwal, S.M. Bhasker of the office of controller of certifying authorities, Government of India and S.I. Ahson of JMI University also spoke on the occasion.