India, 5th most vulnerable to cyber attacks
Bengaluru: India has been ranked fifth most vulnerable country in terms of cyber security breaches in the world in 2016, after the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia by Symantec’s Internet cyber Security Threat Report of 2017. According to the report the US was at the top of the list for “both the number of breaches by country and the number of identities stolen by country.” While India’s vulnerability to cyber attacks is high, cases of data breaches are often underreported in the absence of mandatory legal requirements, unlike in the US, Israel and other developed countries. It is therefore hard to say the exact number of cyber breaches that may be happening every day or which sectors in India are more vulnerable to them,” said Neeraj Aarora, an advocate on record, Supreme Court, cyber lawyer and international arbitrator. “Industrialisation of cyber attacks with inbuilt commerce angle is frustrating to cyber security professionals.
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