Deep Singhania with ‘Strategic Leadership Award’
The industries sector has to strengthen its technology infrastructure to keep pace with the fast moving technologies and prevent pilferage of priceless, confidential data that can put human security at risk, a top industry official has said.
“In the fast-paced environment of information technology, the industry has to seriously think about strengthening the basic technology infrastructure in order to adapt to high-end services,” Deep Singhania, Senior Vice President, Global Head-Growth Strategies at Emerio Globesoft Pte Ltd, said.
He said that it is becoming increasingly important as on one side, applications related to ‘Social, ‘Mobile’, ‘Analytics’ and ‘Cloud’ collectively known by the acronym, SMAC are making life easier but at the same time putting extra ordinary pressure on the overall IT infrastructure.
Singapore-based Emerio is a unit of NTT Communications and is involved in addressing issues related to SMAC.
“We have moved into unprecedented speed of adapting to fast paced technology apps and services but seem to have fallen behind on ensuring basic and secured services,” said Singhania, who has worked with international organizations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Singhania received the ‘Strategic Leadership Award’ at the 23rd World HRD Congress held in Mumbai last month.
There is an urgent need to relook at the technology infrastructure to ensure the industry is also making enough provisions for security-enabled services, Singhania said. He cited the frequent incidences of ‘not enough technical infrastructure’ in terms of storage, connectivity and security resulting in the pilferage of sensitive data in both the government and corporate domain.
Right data gathering and Information Technology along with robust IT security to build technical infrastructure is the need of the hour, he said in an interview with fii-news.com.
Governments and Organisations worldwide are gathering data through mobile and social apps, storing it on clouds and then analyzing this treasure trove for better understanding of human decision making, he said. They are also disbursing data based services through multiple channels including Internet and mobiles. However, he pointed out that there are grave concerns over the widespread leakage of classified information.
According to media reports, recently there were hackers attacking on Sony website and in another case only recently a massive corporate scandal involving leakage of confidential files from Indian government has been exposed.
Since many years, important policy matters and decisions from Ministries of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Power, Coal, Commerce, Defense and Finance were being passed on to corporates by government officials for a hefty sum, the reports said. In Singapore there were attacks on Prime Minister’s website.
While India’s corporate espionage case involves hard copies of important documents but all types of critical and sensitive information is now increasingly being stored worldwide on clouds for high degree of availability when dealing with various policies.
“It is heartening to know that the man, the market and the governments are all working in this direction of data and documents security,” Singhania said.
Technologists will now have to ensure that the IT systems become self-sufficient, security is tight and stored information is safe, he said. It is always good to go back to basics and renew the development process of any element, he said. “The industry must look at all these new energetic applications that have become so important in our daily lives that we can’t imagine a moment without them.”
Singhania cited the example of the cellular phone industry which has expanded exponentially from the basic telephone line of yore to the internet-based services which encompass most aspects of human life.
This has happened through extensive up-gradation of technologies at small regular intervals. However, issues relating to some of the elements such as the capacity, speed and security will compel us to go back to the drawing board again, said Singhania.
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