30 May 2012

Under threat: Does India have no mechanism to fight cyber attack?

Does the Indian government have any authority that deals with cyber attacks? Maybe there is no such body/ department or maybe the government just doesn’t want to tell us. The fate of a right to information (RTI) application seeking clarity on this subject worryingly indicates that the government has no clue whatsoever as far as combating cyber espionage is concerned..............


The case in point is an RTI filed by Prof Arun Mehta, president of Bidirectional Access Promotion Society, a Delhi based NGO, seeking information on what the government had done about a massive cyber attack on Indian computers by the Chinese.............

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The next time we come under cyber attack, we will have no choice but to just sit and watch. At least the story of Mehta’s RTI applications does not indicate any other possibility.......

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