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Healthcare: Handle With Care Karnal Singh, the Former Director of Enforcement Directorate opens up with the Sachin Gaur, Executive Editor, InnoHealth about his opinion on trends of cybercrime and threats in 2019 Karnal Singh, a 1984 batch IPS officer and Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), has over 34 years of experience in investigation of corruption, terrorism, money laundering, and cyber-crime cases. He is a recipient of President’s medal for distinguished service and Police medal for meritorious service. Q. Given your important assignments for the Government of India in the past, share with us the big picture. What are the trends you see in terms of cyber crime and threats for 2019? The world is getting more connected and technology has seeped into every aspect of our lives. On one hand, these advancements make our lives easier and on the other bring a lot of
vulnerabilities with them if security isn’t strong enough to tackle cyber criminals. Hackers today are welleducated and have the capabilities to develop new methods and tools to exploit the vulnerabilities on the computer systems and networks. Few do it for their academic interest and thrill and inform the person concerned about the vulnerabilities
so that the same can be plugged. They are known as white hat hackers. While the others do it with malice and self-gain and are known as Black hat hackers. To gain access to the computer systems, the cyber criminals and hackers will continue to deploy already existing tools (called as exploits) with enhanced
