Parshant is presently working as Assistant Manager-IT with KHD- Humboldt Wedag India Pvt. Ltd. He has won several awards for outstanding performance during his career.

This MBA from Pune, who has also several Microsoft certifications to his credit likes to read books in his spare time and also listens to music.

He divides his time between several charities in order to contribute socially also.

He loves to learn about new technologies.

Some of his favourites include:

Color: Brown

Food: Punjabi & Rajasthani

Drink: Juice

Movie: Three Idiots

TV Shows: News & Knowledge based shows

Vasudha is a law student interested in all things corporate! She has completed several prestigious internships from various law firms.

She has done her bit for the community by working with Helpage India, an organization devoted to rehabilitating the aged, needy and homeless.

Vasudha is a voracious reader and also an amateur writer herself!

Some of her favourites include:

Colour: Purple

Smell: Musk, coffee beans, wet mud

Food: Gujarati (anything sweet!)

Drink: Cappuccino, Peach Iced Tea

Movies: Rang De Basanti, The Sixth Sense, The Good Son, Andaaz Apna Apna, the Bridget Jones series

Actors: George Clooney, Richard Gere, Reese Witherspoon

TV Shows: How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs

Books: White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

This advanced level, career oriented course is based on industry inputs and features comprehensive course material.

On completion of this course, the participant will get 4 certifications:
1. ASCL Certified Cyber Crime Investigator [Regular fees Rs. 20,000]
2. ASCL Certified Digital Evidence Analyst
3. Data64 Certified Cyber Forensics Professional [Regular fees Rs. 20,000]
4. Data64 Program in Information Technology Law [Regular fees Rs. 9,000]

The Data64 certifications are from Data64 Techno Solutions Pvt Ltd (incubated by Science & Technology Park), an initiative of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.

This course provides excellent career opportunities in the following fields:

• Compliance Department
• Vigilance Department
• Fraud Control Department
• Computer Forensic Investigator
• Assisting Law Enforcement Agencies
• Assisting Lawyers in Digital Evidence Cases
• Expert Testimony in Court Cases
• IT Security

What is Digital Evidence Analysis?

Digital Evidence Analysis involves the collection, investigation and analysis of digital evidence.

This digital evidence may be found in computer hard disks, cell phones, ipods, pen drives, digital cameras, CDs, DVDs, floppies, computer networks, the Internet etc.

Digital evidence can be hidden in pictures (steganography), encrypted files, password protected files, deleted files, formatted hard disks, deleted emails, chat transcripts etc.

Digital evidence can relate to online banking frauds, online share trading fraud, source code theft, credit card fraud, tax evasion, virus attacks, cyber sabotage, phishing attacks, email hijacking, denial of service, hacking, divorce cases, murder cases, organized crime, terrorist operations, defamation, pornography, extortion, smuggling etc.

What does a Digital Evidence Analyst do?

* Performs forensic analysis of digital information using standard computer forensics & evidence handling techniques.

* Uses forensically sound procedures to identify network computer intrusion evidence and identifies perpetrators.

* Employs forensic tools and techniques to identify and examine malicious files.

* Employs forensic tools and techniques to crack file and system passwords.

* Detects steganography and recovers deleted, fragmented and corrupted data from digital media of all types.

* Observes proper evidence custody and control procedures.

* Documents procedures and findings in a manner suitable for courtroom presentation and prepares comprehensive written notes and reports.

For details visit:

http://www.asianlaws.org/courses/dea/index.htm

Kumar who was always keen on sports, won the Athletics championship at his school for two consecutive years and was also sports captain at his school.

He dreams of becoming a financial analyst and has been researching the Indian stock markets for almost four years and has also completed some courses from the National Stock Exchange of India.

As a result of these studies in the field, Vivek has written a book titled “Laws relating to Foreign Direct Investment” while interning at ASCL Law School.

Some of his favourites include:

Color: White, Green

Food: Italian and home made

Drink: Red wine

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Marilyn Monroe

Smell: Coffee, Jasmine

Movies: Wedding Crashers, Italian Job, Remember the Titans

TV Shows: How I met your mother

Books: Freakonomics, Five Point Someone

Very interested in music, Prateek has B.A in Indian Classical Music qualifying in both Indian Vocal Classical singing and playing the Tabla.

Prateek also won third prize for Street Theatre at Delhi School’s Literacy Project.

Some of his favourites include:

Color: Blue and Purple

Food: Mughlai and Lebanese

Drink: All fresh juices

Actors: Aamir Khan and Angelina Jolie

Smell: Davidoff Cool Water and Hugo Boss Selection

Movies: All types of Sci-fi movies

TV Shows: Seinfeld and Boston Legal

Books: Of course I Love You… Till I Find Someone Better by Durjoy Datta and Manvi Ahuja, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.

Gujarat Forensic Sciences University is a unique super specialized University and first of its kind in the world for conducting Degree/Diploma/Certificate courses in the field of Forensic Science, Behavioral Science, Criminology and other allied areas.

The MoU was signed in the presence of Dr. J. M. Vyas, Director General, Gujarat Forensic Sciences University.

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Dr. J. M. Vyas (Director General, Gujarat Forensic Sciences Universitiy & Director, Directorate of Forensic Science, Gandhinagar), Mr. H. P. Sanghvi (Course – Coordinator GFSU & Scientific Officer Directorate of Forensic Science), Mr. Rohas Nagpal (President Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune), Mr. Ninad Nawaghare (Territory Manager (Maharashtra) Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune) and Mr.Prashant Jhala (Territory Manager (Gujarat) Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune).

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Mr. H. P. Sanghvi (Course – Coordinator GFSU & Scientific Officer Directorate of Forensic Science), Dr. M. S. Dahiya (Director – Institute of Forensic Science, GFSU & Deputy Director, DFS), Dr. J. M. Vyas (Director General, Gujarat Forensic Sciences Universitiy & Director, Directorate of Forensic Science, Gandhinagar), Mr. Rohas Nagpal (President Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune), Mr.Prashant Jhala (Territory Manager (Gujarat) Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune) and Mr. Ninad Nawaghare (Territory Manager (Maharashtra) Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune).
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Dr. J. M. Vyas (Director General, Gujarat Forensic Sciences Universitiy & Director, Directorate of Forensic Science, Gandhinagar), Mr Mehul Dave (Registrar , GFSU), Dr. M. S. Dahiya (Director – Institute of Forensic Science, GFSU & Deputy Director, DFS), Mr. H. P. Sanghvi (Course – Coordinator GFSU & Scientific Officer Directorate of Forensic Science),  , Mr. Rohas Nagpal (President Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune) and Mr. Ninad Nawaghare (Territory Manager (Maharashtra) Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune).
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Mr Mehul Dave (Registrar , GFSU) and Dr. M. S. Dahiya (Director – Institute of Forensic Science, GFSU & Deputy Director, DFS).
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Mr. Rohas Nagpal (President Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune) and Mr. Ninad Nawaghare (Territory Manager (Maharashtra) Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune).

Happy New Year!

Santosh N Khadsare is our Student of the Month for January 2010. He is a student of the ASCL Certified Cyber Crime Investigator course conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.

Santosh has completed his Engineering in the field of Electronics and Telecom. He has been a part of the Indian Army for 10 years. At present, he is a Major with the Indian Army.

Santosh has also successfully completed several security courses run by the Army. He is fond of reading and also participates in adventure sports.

Santosh makes a social impact by running the “Eshwari Foundation” an organization dedicated to helping poor children.

Some of his favourites include:

Colour: Yellow

Food: Indian

Books: Inheritance of Loss, A Suitable Boy

Actors: Anil Kapoor and Anupam Kher

TV Shows: The Big Fight

Movies: Taare Zameen Par, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, Welcome

Ritesh Ranjan Sinha is our Alumnus of the Month for January 2010. He has successfully completed the Diploma in Cyber Law course conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.

Ritesh is serving in the Indian Air Force and is presently posted at Bhutan. He is a combatant member of the Indian Air Force since 1997 and fought for India during the Kargil War in 1999.

Ritesh is fond of adventure sports like mountaineering, rock climbing and martial arts (Tae-Kwon-Do).

Besides this, he also writes Hindi poetry. He has won appreciation for this from Air Force Station Kanpur, Central Air Command IAF, Maintenance Command IAF and Royal Bhutan Army and Indian Military Training Team in Bhutan.

Recently, Ritesh compiled his first book of Hindi poetry called “Samarpan”. He has dedicated this book to his younger brother who died in 2000.

Some of his favourites include:

Color: Sky blue

Food: Sattu and Chivda (typically Bihari dishes)

Drink: Lemon Tea

Actors: Manoj Kumar

Smell: Lemons

Movies: Upkar

TV Shows: Shows on National Geographic Channel

Books: Madushala by Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Tanmay Dikshit

This 20-year-old is also a handwriting analyst.

Apart from his academic interests he has special interest in Scouts and attended the 14th National Jamboree at Chhattisgarh. He was awarded Rajya Puraskar (State Award) and also Rashtrapati Award of the Bharat Scouts & Guides of NHQ, New Delhi (signed by the then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam). As of now, he is Rover Leader.

In addition, he is also certified in Computer Forensics (U.S.). He has take several other certifications from Brainbench and National Computer Science Academy.

Some of his favorites include:

Color: Red

Food: Gujarati food & Puranpoli

Drink: Cold Coffee

Actors: Jackie Chan, and as a dancer – Prabhudeva

Singer: Miley Cyrus

Smell: Kasturi Chandan

Movies: A Wednesday, Bawarchi, Cast Away, Final Destination, Die Hard, The Net, The Last Mimzy and many more..

TV Shows: Mr. Bean, C.I.D., Mano Ya Na Mano, Hannah Montana, C.S.I.

U. Parvathavarthini

Parvathavarthini was very interested in sports from a young age and received individual Championship in Regional Level Matriculation Sports Meet at Trichy at the age of 12.

In 1997, she was honoured with the award of “The Best Athlete of the Year” at Salem District.

She has even written a book about the practice and achievement of Kovai athletics which was published by W.I. Devaram, I.P.S.

While doing her law course at Coimbatore, she received two years’ individual championship at Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Tamilnadu and continuously achieved Gold Medal for five years in her favourite event – the discus throw. Parvathavarthini was felicitated as the 1st woman to achieve such an award in the history of Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Tamilnadu.

In the past, she has given free training in spoken English and Personality Development for rural students. Now, she trains volunteers of a centre functioning for the improvement of conditions for rural children.

At present, she is practicing in the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court.

Some of her favourites include:

Color: Red and Black

Food: Sea Food

Drink: Milk

Smell: Petrichor and Jasmine

Actors: Shah Rukh Khan

T.V.shows: Sport quiz programmes on D.D and all programmes on N.D.T.V

Books: The Greatest: My Own Story (Autobiography of the world famous boxing champion – Muhammad Ali.)

Music: Classical