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The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023
Dr Gulshan Rai, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Background
India, currently, does not have a standalone law on data protection. The Information Technology Act, 2000 regulates the use of personal data. In the year 2017, Committee of Experts on Data Protection, chaired by Justice B. N. S....

August 16, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Data Protection , fiduciary , data principal , transfer of data
Ideating an Indian Cyber Cluster Model with Global Partnerships
Divyanshu Jindal Article

With rapidly evolving and emerging cyber technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Internet-of-Things (IoT), human interaction with the digital domain is now ubiquitous. In parallel, cyber criminals today seek new and sophisticated ways to explo....

August 10, 2023 Cyber Security , Article , Israel , India , China , United Kingdom , Geopolitics , Cyber Strategy , cybersecurity , Cyber , CyberSpark , Cyber Campus
Book Review: Information, Cyber and Space Domain and Its Application in Future Land Warfare, Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM, KW Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (2023), ISBN: 978-93-91490-56-0
Colonel Rajiv Kumar Srivastava

PK Mallick, an Indian Army General, scholar warrior par excellence with his more than two decades of handling specialised domain of Information and Cyber Warfare, has mapped rapid evolution of Information, Cyber and Space aspects of land warfare. Dep....

July 06, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Book Reviews , Cyber , Space Domain , Land Warfare
Vimarsh on “India’s G20 Presidency: Forging Actionable Agenda for Global South”

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in collaboration with the India Writes Network/Centre for Global India Insights organized a Vimarsh panel discussion on “India’s G20 Presidency: Forging Actionable Agenda for Global South” on 24 Fe....

March 06, 2023 Vimarsh , Cyber Security , Post-COVID , G20 presidency , Global South , Global India Insights , India’s G20 Moment
China in the Cyber Domain
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

China is developing cyber capacities in pursuit of its economic, political and strategic objectives. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China differs considerably from its Western counterparts in its approach to cyber and network operations. It ....

February 07, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Cyber Security , China , PLA , Book Published , Cyber Security , Cyber Attack , China Cyber-Influence , cyber domain
Geopolitics of Cyber Attribution
Divyanshu Jindal Article

Abstract
With the world witnessing a full-scale offensive as a part of the Russia-Ukraine conflict it now seems inevitable that all future conflicts will have a cyber component. As nations worldwide prepare to develop their capabilitie....

January 31, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Geopolitics , Cyberspace , espionage , Cyber , cyberattack , Attribution , Cyberwarfare
AIIMS Cyber-Incident— An ‘e-epidemic’ Situation for Digital Bharat
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

तावद्भयेषु भेतव्यं यावद्भयमनागतम् । आगतं तु भयं वीक्ष्य प्रहर्तव्यमशङ्कया ॥
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December 12, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , India , China , Cyber Security , Malware , Personal data , Bharat , crypto currency , AIIMS Delhi , AIIMS , Cyber Incident , CNI , Ransom ware , OCG , Crypto virology
India’s Preparedness in the Digital Milieu
The Cyber Task Force, VIF Commentary

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
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