Amaresh Pujari’s Column: How to Secure India’s Sacred Cyber Space

Writing 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu declared in his military treatise The Art of War: “Supreme excellence consists of breaking enemy’s resistance without fighting”. It is a tribute to the Chinese military strategist’s genius that his dictum holds good even today after a couple of millennia, guiding nations, organisations and individuals in gaining control of their adversaries by using the tools of cyber warfare rather than physical engagement. In a world that is increasingly being driven by computer networks, there has been an alarming rise in the volume and sophistication of cyber attacks in the last few years. The most worrying aspect, however, is the shifting target profile of the attacks, whereby even the critical infrastructure of nations viz government services, telecom networks, stock exchanges, power distribution networks, ATCs etc are no longer immune to sophisticated cyber attacks.
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