The world’s smallest cyber crime investigation device was released in Pune on Saturday 28th August, 2010 by Hon’ble Justice Rajesh Tandon, Chairperson, Cyber Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi.

Code-named pCHIP, this Portable Mega Investigation & Forensic Solution is delivered in two versions – on a USB device and on a micro SD card.

pCHIP runs from a USB drive / micro SD card without installation on the suspect PC. It captures relevant volatile evidence from a live (switched on) computer. It has an extremely easy-to-use interface and provides detailed reports.

pCHIP has been designed by Asian School of Cyber Laws & Data64 Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Way back in the year 2007, the annual loss due to computer crime was estimated to be $67.2 billion for U.S. organizations. (Source: United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters, June 2007)

The global figure today is likely to be much higher than the Rs 26,880,000,000 figure quoted above. This enormous cost of computer crime and computer attack has led to a massive global shortfall of skilled information security and incident response professionals.