About
four years back, India's leading techno legal ICT law firm Perry4Law
wrote about cyber
security legal practice in
India. The article was very clear in its message that techno legal
fields like cyber law, cyber security, cyber forensics, cyber
warfare, cyber terrorism, etc are not the preferred field of legal
practice for law firms and lawyers in India and other countries. The
main reason for avoiding cyber security legal practice was lack of
expertise to manage complicated cyber security related issues. Only
law firms like Perry4Law have been managing
techno legal issues of cyber security, cyber law, cyber forensics,
e-discovery, etc in India so far.
Then came the positive development and lawyers and law firms started exploring the areas like cyber law, cyber security, cyber forensics, etc. Although the number of such lawyers/law firms is negligible yet the growing interest in the techno legal fields would increase such numbers in future. Further, techno legal issues would also change the way traditional businesses and transactions would be carried out in future. For instance concepts like cyber insurance, online dispute resolution, e-courts, digital evidencing and e-discovery, media forensics, cyber forensics, etc would be very much used in future.
However, technology laws have their own peculiar problems. Cyber laws are generally curative in nature as against the desirable preventive requirements. They are formulated keeping in mind the crimes/cyber crimes that have already taken place instead of what cyber crimes can possibly happen in future. In short, cyber laws must be “futuristic” in nature as against “historical” in their applicability. This brings novel legal challenges before lawyers and law firms as cyber security legal practice becomes very challenging and research oriented field.
Cyber
crimes and cyber attacks have increased tremendously world over. No
country is safe from cyber crimes and sophisticated cyber attacks.
Despite this position there is no method or procedure to asertain
international
legal issues of cyber attacks.
Perry4Law
Organisation (P4LO) has been
managing the exclusive techno legal blog
on international legal issues of cyber attacks and the same can be
accessed here.
Further, to spread public awareness in the techno legal fields, P4LO
has also been providing global
techno legal news and views
and the same can be accessed here.
A virtual
law campus (VLC) has also
been launched by Perry4Law's
Techno Legal Base (PTLB) so
that skills developments in the fields like cyber law, cyber
security, e-discovery, cyber forensics, etc can be ensured for
various stakeholders including lawyers.
With issues like cyber espionage and cyber warfare, the traditional armed forces and legal fraternity are now collaborating upon a very unique platform where lawyers need to have a sound knowledge of both law and technology. It seems the techno legal community alone would be able to dare to explore issues like cyber law, cyber security, etc in future.
Source:
Cyber
Security In India.
