Kolkata: To strengthen cyber security, especially in schools that have reported multiple cases of zoombombing and cyber bullying during the pandemic, Kolkata Police has introduced Cyber Saathi Project for online safety of city teenagers and young adults. According to the Kolkata Police Cyber Cell, one person from the school – teacher or non-teaching staff – was being trained by the KP Cyber Department.
DC (Cyber) Praveen Prakash said the team has already started the project in two schools in the city.
“Once trained, the person will act as a nodal officer for the institution and the person will subsequently train other important stakeholders of the institution. Thus Kolkata Police will guide and guide the common man from the grassroots level in the matter of cyber security. Gyanvardhan will host the training,” said an official of the espionage department.
Presently, the department is finalizing the material for Cyber Saathi. The police hope that in the coming few months, this training will become the building block through which basic public awareness can be created against crimes committed online. The police are planning to reward schools based on the implementation of the project. An official said, “If we can bring in some healthy competition, we are expecting to see greater participation among children and teachers. We wait for this COVID phase to be over before we announce the final phase of our plans. are doing.”
Last year, cyber experts and police had asked teachers to follow basic rules to avoid intrusion by outsiders. He has repeated the same order this year as many schools now follow both online and offline modes of education.
As a first step, he advised, people should avoid sharing links to classes or webinars in the public domain. “It would be great to disable screen-sharing between non-hosted students. Once a teacher disables the remote-control function, file transfer, auto save chat features, and annotations, it can improve the cyber security of the online classroom.” Teachers should lock virtual classes against outsiders. Once classes begin, taking small cyber-sanitation precautions can help make online classes much safer from potential attacks by hackers ,” said an expert.
Cyber expert and special public prosecutor Bivas Chatterjee suggested the use of an ombudsman who is technically qualified to nab the culprit or prevent misuse of the online platform. “Exactly this is the role we expect the nodal officers to play,” said a cyber cell official.
The West Bengal Government Teachers’ Association welcomed the police move, but wanted the training to cover as many schools as possible in the shortest possible time.
“We conducted such a cyber awareness program about four years ago. It is important that children who are now more dependent on the Internet than ever before, are also aware of its dangers. But it is also important that schools – Even in remote areas – based in remote areas – the organisation’s general secretary Saugata Basu said, “Similarly, we need to ensure that the training covers all aspects of digital crimes relevant to students.”
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