Cyber Attacks: More Terrifying than Terrorists

While many would fear the first, it is cyber attack that has grown to become the top threat.

The fear of cyber insecurity is today the topmost threat while that of a terror attack has moved to a second. And not just the IT industry, even the government, manufacturing and telecom sectors are rating cyber security as one of their top 3 risks…..

A cyber attack can get your business ruined, your ideas becoming another's brainchild and your secret data floating free. With no serious treaty so far, it is quite easy for a cyber punk to sell top confidential data which the government believes it is keeping safe. Proud of a double-digit growth, those sitting in the Planning Commission will take a century to recover from the damage if the Indian economy was to face a cyber attack.

India is more exposed to such threats in the absence of proper cyber threats awareness, lack of cyber security, loose cyber law mechanisms and the absence of a national encryption policy. Conducting a cyber attack on India's critical information or data today is child's play. The very first example in the recent past was the 9/11 attacks, followed by the terror attacks in Mumbai in the year 2008. An attempt to hack the computers in the Prime Minister's Office shows the reach of these cyber terrorists. Then there were the 200 cyber attacks per day during the Commonwealth Games…………...

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