India’s cyber security: Approach and preparedness
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India’s cyber security: Approach and preparedness

Hindustan Times  

In the last few years, cyber security has attained growing importance in all debates about national security. Unrelated to the launch of the report but linked with the theme of it, India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla delivered an important address on cyber security in the United Nations Security Council. The article considers these two developments together as FS’ speech provides an outline of India’s approach to cyber security whereas IISS report assesses India’s cyber capabilities. The FS’s speech noted that ‘our overarching objective is to harness cyberspace for the growth and empowerment of people, not just of our own country, but for all humanity.’ India is committed to ‘open, secure, free, accessible and stable cyberspace environment’ and would like cyberspace to be a key driver for ‘innovation, economic growth, sustainable development.’ As per the IISS report, in terms of cyber capabilities, India is in the third-tier countries along with Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea and Vietnam. These countries are at a ‘much earlier stages in their cyber journeys, each having strengths or potential strengths in some of the categories in the methodology but significant weaknesses in others.’ The report concluded that India’s cyber capabilities have been focused on Pakistan and need to be bolstered to deal with the evolving threats, especially from China.In this context, the growing role of private sector and diplomatic collaborations with partners like the United States and the UK would certainly help.

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