With the advent of social networking sites and emerging innovative online technologies, there is imminent risk of networking fraud. Following the rapid expansion of B2B e-commerce market, which is expected to touch around $6.7 trillion by 2020, there are crimes like forging of digital signatures, phishing, cheating through Voice over Internet Protocol, hacking IP address and data theft which are happening across B2B and B2C transaction. To deal with this scenario, eminent Mumbai based cyber lawyer & security expert Prashant Mali and his team assist clients in filing criminal complaints with cyber police and filing claim for damages & compensation in cyber crime court. Prashant provides consulting services to clients and enterprises for drafting and implementing best practices to help achieve compliance towards Section 43A of the IT Act, 2000.
There is very little awareness among various enterprises and organizations regarding the sections of Indian cyber law being criminal in nature, which can expose the organization to financial risks of crores of rupees and loss of brand value in the market. “I can give them proper techno legal advice to prevent and defend any technology related crimes,” says Prashant Mali.

Cyber Crime Mitigation consultant
Prashant Mali; a Cyber Privacy, Security and IPR Attorney expert from India with over 20 years of experience has been providing expert legal opinion on cyber laws for government agencies, enterprises, organizations and individuals since years.
In any organization, excessive usage of social networking websites could possibly lead to privacy violation and reputation damage. Disgruntled employees can also post trade secrets or unaudited balance sheets causing statutory violations and IPR harms to a company, in addition to this; employees might also invite malicious codes on firm’s network by bypassing security controls. Prashant Mali and his team of IT legal experts help clients by devising and implementing, organization wide Robust Social Media Policy. The team guides its clients to follow the IT Act 2000 compliance through awareness from wall papers, screensavers, and posters across firms in addition to cyber law module training to clients.

Handling Defamation
Currently most firms are projecting themselves in Social Media, and customers have also started giving opinions based on their experiences as followups. Feedbacks on social media sites could enhance or wreck the reputation of a company. Using commercial algorithms and Search engine optimization on internet about a particular company, one can find out about the reputation on internet as well as social media site. Through research and analysis, Prashant Mali along with his team help remove defamatory content, abusive data or block material from various websites after seeking directions from Court orders.

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Besides solving and consulting cyber crime legal cases, Advocate Prashant Mali has also authored Books in Hindi, English and Marathi. Those are Cyber Law & Cyber Crimes, the IT Act 2000 & IT Rules 2012 and a Marathi Book named Cyber Gunhe va Kaida Samanyan sathi along with its replica version translated in Hindi.

Clientele
Aditya Birla Group, Bharti Airtel, Honda Cars, IndusInd Bank, Cipla, The State Bank of India, The National Stock Exchange of India, Camlin, Bajaj Allianz and many more.

Testimonial
‘Advocate Prashant Mali is a technical expert and has profound knowledge of Cyber Frauds & Law. I am thankful to him for representing me as my lawyer and helping me win my hard earned money which I had almost lost because of online banking and sim card exchange fraud. I was a victim of Rs. 19 Lakhs fraud at that time he represented me as lawyer and helped me get back my Rs. 21 Lakhs. This was possible because of the extensive research and experience of my Advocate in this field, I would remain deeply indebted and would highly recommend him,” Ex-Director, IIT & Member of Security Advisory Board Member.

Amit Patwardhan’s Bank Statement Case
In April 2013, the Adjudicating Officer of Maharashtra delivered the statement that an employer cannot get an employee or ex-employee’s bank statement and furnish it in any court case, by the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000.
Amit Patwardhan was a former employee of Rud India Chains; he then later joined its rival firm Heko Chains. Rud India doubted that Amit took away company secrets. So, they filed a civil suit to claim damages for the theft of trade secrets. Ironically, Patwardhan alleged that his bank statement was filed by his former employer as evidence in the court case which was obtained by hacking into his personal banking system of Bank of Baroda. When the Bank inquired about the transaction, it said that the Bank does not have a policy of giving out bank statement’s information, without the approval of customer. As the bank statement came from electronic records, Rud India Chains was held guilty of violating Section 43 (b) of IT Act, read with section 66. After Prashant Mali took over the case, the court ordered that Banks cannot share their client’s bank statement of ex-employee with ex-employer.