As for problematic areas in the provision of cyber security solutions in tackling cyber crimes, solution provided by C-DAC for cyber forensics is effective in carrying out offline analysis of cyber crimes only. However, they cannot be used to tackle online cyber crimes, which are increasing rapidly day by day. With further development support, the tools developed so far by C-DAC in this regard could be scaled up and made effective for online monitoring and analysis. Being essentially of catch-up nature, newer solution methods are likely to be improvised, demanding perpetual vigilance and design of new solutions.

Although C-DAC has accorded top priority to cyber security in its R&D intending to deliver multilevel and multilayered security solutions to safeguard the Government infrastructure, solutions already developed in this area are cyber forensic tools, adaptive intrusion detective system, end systems security solution, document security solutions, steganographic tools et al. These solutions, however, cannot be static as the attacks keep growing with changing times and technologies. Be that as it may, C-DAC continues to explore the need of the hour cyber security solutions relating to cryptography/cryptanalysis, cyber forensics, face recognition and associated biometric techniques, legal interpretation of voice over internet protocol (VOIP) packets transparent, end-to-end security-hardened solutions, intrusion detection systems, digital audio watermarking, and trust enhancement of cyber space for promotion of e-Governance. Yet, according to C-DAC, level of success of these solutions in ensuring cyber security has been limited. Indigenous cyber forensics tool kit and cyber check suite developed by C-DAC have been utilized by several leading law enforcement and forensic agencies like CBI, IB, CFSL and State police in the country. Over 60 licences of cyber check suite have so far been delivered to these agencies. The same has also been issued to Defence organizations as well.

According to C-DAC, the tools of cyber check suite have helped in investigating cyber crimes conforming to the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Steganalysis tools have also been developed and integrated with the cyber forensic tools. Besides, adaptive intrusion detection system developed by C-DAC has been tested by several agencies, which are considering seriously its adoption.

Major activities of C-DAC across its various centres in the country relate to high performance computing/super computing, grid computing, language computing, software technologies, professional electronics, cyber security and cyber forensics, health informatics, education and training.

In the context of cyber crimes having assumed most alarming proportions all over the country, the progress made by C-DAC to fight it effectively and comprehensively is dismal, to say the least. Unless vigorous efforts are made through a satisfactory and meaningful breakthrough in tackling growing cyber crimes in the country on par with the global standards, India may lose the initial advantages over other developing nations because of its efficacy in English language in the absence of adequate technology back up to tackle effectively the challenges of ever growing cyber crimes, a modern and highly sophisticated version of white collar crimes, which have unfathomable potential to endanger country's security!