Articles

India’s Preparedness in the Digital Milieu

On 04 August 2022, the Cyber Task Force members reviewed some significant developments in India’s digital domain, including Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), FinTech, Blockchain activities, Non-Personal Data (NPD), a proposal for a new Telegraph....

November 14, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Commentary , India , China , Russia , 5G , Digital Currency , Cyber , Data Protection , Telecom , PDP

Role of Cyber-enabled Technologies in the Russia-Ukraine Armed Conflict

The Cyber Task Force, VIF Article

The cyber conflict has blurred the distinctions between state-backed hackers and patriotic amateurs, making it harder for governments to determine who attacks them and respond effectively. However, both Russia and Ukraine appear to have welcomed tech....

August 23, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , India , Russia , Ukraine , Information Warfare , Cyber warfare , Cyber , Russia Ukraine conflict

Decoding Russia's 'Missing' Cyberwar Amid War in Ukraine

… impact of cyber operations is missing ... Russian cyber operations lean towards low-cost disruption efforts that rely on cyber patriots and criminal hackers than their ability to carry out sophisticated degradation campaigns. Cyber is an excellen....

May 17, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Cyber Security , Russia’s cyber operations , US-Russia-Ukraine cyber contest , Russia-West cyber equation , controlled cyber attacks , cyber instigations and apprehensions , the East-West Hacking game

War in Ukraine: Are Russia’s Cyber Warfare Capabilities Overhyped?

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) Article

Introduction. Since the early 90s, experts have been saying that the next war will be fought in cyberspace. A ‘cyber Pearl Harbour’ would meltdown government systems, cripple critical infrastructure and plunge modern militaries and societ....

May 02, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Cyber Attack , Cyber warfare , Cyber Strategy , Cyber Defense

Protection of National Critical Information Infrastructure

India is in the next phase of digital transformation. The digital presence of economic and national security infrastructure is growing in the country at a rapid pace. All critical infrastructures are dependent and have integrated cyber technologies f....

March 21, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Technological and Scientific Studies , Cyber Security , artificial intelligence , Digital India , IOT , Quantum Computing , Critical Information Infrastructure , NCIIP , NCCC , NTRO , Critical Infrastructure , SCADA

Engage Taiwan in Cyber Security Exercises

Rup Narayan Das Commentary

Earlier this month the National Security Council of India virtually hosted the first Security Conclave on Developing Regional Cyber Security capabilities on Defensive Operations. Delegates from Members and Observer States of the Colombo Security Conc....

January 19, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , Cyber Security , Commentary , China , Xiaomi , CERT-In cyber security , Colombo security conclave , DSCI , Lithuania

Deterrence Theory– Is it Applicable in Cyber Domain?

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… effective cyber deterrence policies require regular, sustained disruption of malicious cyber activity. Such disruption can be technical, legal, logistical, financial, diplomatic, and, in some extreme cases, kinetic. Increasing the scope, scale an....

September 09, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Deterrence in cyberspace , Ddeterrence theories , Powers in cyber arena , Cyber attack attribution , Principles of cyber deterrence

Cyber Weapons – A Weapon of War?

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… cyber weapons will be used individually and blended simultaneously with conventional kinetic weapons as force multipliers … for both attacker and defender, it is difficult to predict; cyber weapons often achieve things other than their intended....

August 24, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Cyber Attack , Cyber Weapons , Methods of cyber operations , Cases of cyber attacks , Effects of cyber operations

China’s Cyber-Influence Operations

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… With its growing assertiveness in the international arena, China uses new technologies to achieve its foreign policy goals and project an image of responsible global power … spending billions on influence operations across the world ... fits i....

May 15, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , China , Cyber Security , PLA , Social Media , Intelligence agencies , China Cyber-Influence , Cyber Influence Operations , Non-Intelligence Sources , Digital Media , China’s influence campaign

Defining China’s Intelligentized Warfare and Role of Artificial Intelligence

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

China feels that U.S. is its main adversary ... China is trying to match U.S. technological capabilities with its own strength in AI as a leap frog technology and a new concept of war ... But there will be lot of problems in implementing this concept....

March 24, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Cyber Security , China’s adoption of artificial intelligence , AI in information warfare , PLA’s information operations