CS Professional · Internal and Forensic Audit · Cyber Forensics
A forensic examiner at Bharat Logistics Ltd reviews logs showing an unknown intruder's source address, route, time and duration of connections to the company's server. Under the IT Act, 2000 definition used for monitoring by authorised Government agencies, such information is best described as:
The information is traffic data. Section 69B of the IT Act, 2000 defines traffic data as data identifying a person, computer system, network or location of a communication, including its origin, destination, route, time, size, duration or type of service. Source address, route, time and duration fit that definition.
- AComputer contaminant
- BTraffic dataCorrect
- CElectronic signature certificate
- DCritical information infrastructure
Explanation
Section 69B explains that traffic data is data identifying or purporting to identify any person, computer system, network or location to or from which communication is transmitted, including origin, destination, route, time, date, size, duration or type of service. The log details match this description.
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