NALSAR University of Law in collaboration with CYCOPS Information Security Services has opened a state-of-the-art cyber forensic lab by name CTRL-Z at NALSAR University campus here on Sunday.
The cyber forensic lab was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor of the university Faizan Mustafa, chairperson of the university’s academic committee Amita Dhanda and CYCOPS director G. Prasanna. Faculty and students of the university as well as other stakeholders were present on the occasion.
Mr. Prasanna gave a presentation on the collaboration and roadmap ahead by highlighting the objectives of establishing CTRL-Z. He said the cyber forensic lab would help the law enforcement authorities and judiciary in the process of digital evidence retrievals, analysis and documentation life cycle and conduct long-term and short-term certification courses relating to cyber laws and cyber forensic studies.
Further, it would conduct conferences and workshops for students, police and judicial officers, assist legalities of cyber technologies in collaboration with certifying authority of electronic components in different countries and also conduct annual hackathon for students. to inculcate competitive spirit and improve their learning cycles in the field of cyber technologies.
Prof. Mustafa said National Investigation Agency trainees would be the first batch to get training at CTRL-Z. Prof. Amita Dhanda suggested conducting more interactions with the faculty and students for enhancing institute and industry integration in the field of law and cyber technologies and improving the research scope dynamically.
Registrar of the university V. Balakista Reddy, senior faculty members K.V. Sarma and G. Mallikarjun were among those who participated.