Syllabus of University of Pune MCA Semester V-Cyber Law and IT Security

IT E1 : Cyber Law and IT Security

Objective : To learn IT security – threats, detection and prevention and Cyber
Laws and provisions.

1 Object and Scope of the IT Act
1.1 Genesis
1.2 Object
1.3 Scope of the Act
2 Encryption
2.1 Symmetric Cryptography
2.2 Asymmetric Cryptography
2.3 RSA Algorithm
2.4 Public Key Encryption
3 Digital Signature
3.1 Technology behind Digital Signature
3.2 Creating a Digital Signature
3.3 Verifying a Digital Signature
3.4 Digital Signature and PKI
3.5 Digital Signature and the Law
4 E-Governance and IT Act 2000
4.1 Legal recognition of electronic records
4.2 Legal recognition of digital signature
4.3 Use of electronic records and digital
signatures in Government and its
agencies
5 Certifying Authorities
5.1 Need of Certifying Authority and Power
5.2 Appointment, function of Controller
5.3 Who can be a Certifying Authority?
5.4 Digital Signature Certifications
5.5 Generation, Suspension and Revocation
Of Digital Signature Certificate
6 Domain Name Disputes and Trademark Law
6.1 Concept of Domain Names
6.2 New Concepts in Trademark
Jurisprudence
6.3 Cyber squatting, Reverse Hijacking,
Meta tags, Framing, Spamming,
6.4 Jurisdiction in Trademark Dispute
7 Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal
7.1 Establishment & Composition Of
Appellate Tribunal
7.2 Powers of Adjudicating officer to
Award Compensation
7.3 Powers of Adjudicating officer to
Impose Penalty
8 The Cyber Crimes (S-65 to S-74)
8.1 Tampering with Computer Source
Documents(S-65)
8.2 Hacking with Computer System(S-66)
8.3 Publishing of Information Which is
Obscene in Electronic Form(s-67) 8.4
Offences : Breanch of Confidentiality
& Privacy (S-72)
8.5 Offences : Related to Digital Signature
Certificate(S-73 & S-74)

Reference:
1) Cyber Law in India by Farooq Ahmad – Pioneer Books
2) Information Technology Law and Practice by
Vakul Sharma – Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
3) The Indian Cyber Law by Suresh T Vishwanathan –
Bharat Law house New Delhi.
4) Hand book of Cyber & E-commerce Laws by P.M. Bakshi & R.K.Suri –
Bharat Law house New Delhi.
5) Guide to Cyber Laws by Rodney D. Ryder –
Wadhwa and Company Nagpur.
6) The Information Technology Act,2000 – Bare Act –
Professional Book Publishers – New Delhi.

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