Our 169th event for the community
As the world went ONLINE in 2020 onwards, the predators and criminals also started exploring online options to exploit and attack, everyone. Down the line in 2021, the counts of children and age-old who are being victims have increased tremendously. As per a report, the number of cyber crimes happening against the children has increased by 400% in 2020 as compared to 2021.
Hence, with the rapidly growing cyber-crimes and to talk about its prevention and reporting techniques and hence to make people aware, Delhi based no-to profit organization Helping Brainz through their National Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness team by Shraddha Khedkar virtually conducted a Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness Session at Kendriya Vidyalaya Parents Federation (KVPF, www.kvpf.in ), Kerala on January 30, 2022.
This was Helping Brainz’s 13th Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Awareness event and their 169th project. Shraddha’s team at Helping Brainz is on a national mission to dedicate their Saturdays for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Security Career Counselling Sessions.
In the 170 mins long event, around 100+ students, parents and federation members part of Kendriya Vidyalaya Parents Federation (KVPF), from various parts of Kerala attended the event.
Prof. (Dr.) M. Chandra Sekhar, CEO, MacLead
Renowned Information Security and Project Management professional, Prof. (Dr.) M. Chandra Sekhar, CEO, MacLead was the Guest Speaker for the event.
Yedhu Krishna Menon, a Third-Party Risk Management and Cyber Security Professional, was the speaker and trainer of the event. During the event, Yedhu spoke about, Cyber Attacks and Attackers, Cyber Crimes, Counts and Stats, Types and Categories of Cyber Crimes, Online Gaming, Social Media Safety, discussed various case studies of Cyber Crimes, Cyber Crime prevention mechanisms, reporting structures (mechanisms, websites, phone numbers, email addresses) and Cyber Laws. Event was followed by a Quiz Competition to check the effectiveness of the understandings derived from the event.
Adv. Biju Zacharias, (President, KVPF), Renjith A (General Secretary, KVPF), Fasa R.I (Secretary, KVPF), Amal Dev M.V. (Treasurer, KVPF), Shraddha Khedkar (Project Manager, National Cyber Security and Legal Awareness Sessions, Helping Brainz), Pooja Kulkarni Vaidya (Head of Branding and Advertising, Helping Brainz), Pallabi Bose (Project Manager, Pandemic and Disaster Management and Special Projects), and other faculty members, spoke and led the event from the front.
Some open feedback
In the coming months, possibly in Q2 of 2022, Helping Brainz plans to host, sessions on Healthcare Awareness and Cyber-security career counselling in collaboration with KVPF, Kerala.
