"It's true. Security has been the last piece of the puzzle. When it comes to innovation, we think of What's Possible rather than What's the Problem. And that's the way it should be. Otherwise innovation would be dead. But then, a larger headache awaits all of us later in the day. It was the case with the birth of the Internet. It has pretty much been the case with social networking. And it is the case with e-governance initiatives too.

Interaction with the defence and government IT personnel brought this out clearly. For long, what can go wrong with respect to security has remained the missing piece in the puzzle. That has been the consensus at Tech Sabha. But the significant thing is that, apart from an interest in data centers, government IT professionals have their focus clearly on threats that can derail or slow the e-governance process and the best plans for security deployment.

With the rising incidents of information leakage, particularly of individual users, involving healthcare, card holder information and more, one does think of the significant amount of user information held by the government, involving, Income Tax, land holdings, passport office and more. Needless to say, protecting the information and user is extremely important bringing in not just security at the perimeter and for information in transit, but also access control to the stored information and clear audit guidelines."