Navy plans dedicated cadre of cyber sea warriors

After robust sea, air and underwater combat arms, the Navy now wants a dedicated force for the virtual front as well. The force has begun the process to recruit information technology (IT) engineers and graduates as short-service commissioned officers. 

The Navy's drive to induct IT officers, as part of its main executive branch, comes in the backdrop of cyber warfare emerging as a potentially crippling form of waging covert wars as well as Chinese and Pakistani online espionage agents continuing with their incessant attempts to hack into Indian computer networks............ 

The Navy has  been facing mounting cyber-attacks in recent years.............


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Govt plans cyber offensive to tackle Chinese hackers

THE NAVY is examining the findings of a board of inquiry that probed lapses in cyber security measures in the eastern command headquarters at Visakhapatnam, leading to possible loss of data to Chinese hackers.

This incident has led to clamour for changing the countrys cyber security policy from passive to active. As of now, only defensive measures have been put in place, but security experts now want to launch an offensive through its own hacking units, a move that is being seriously pursued by the government.

The government is considering counter cyber offensive and the issue came up in the past weeks meeting of the national security council on cyber threats, headed by PM Manmohan Singh.................

Sources said the cause of threat was lapses on part of an unspecified number of officers who did not follow the procedures and used external devices in which bugs were planted by the hackers to extract information...............

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India and Japan agree to boost cyber security, maritime

India's security cooperation with Japan in the Asia-Pacific, which is fast turning into the driver of global politics, received further impetus on Monday as the two sides announced fresh dialogue mechanisms for maritime and cyber security. As the sixth round of strategic dialogue between the two nations was co-chaired by foreign minister S M Krishna and his visiting Japanese counterpart Koichiro Gemba, New Delhi and Tokyo are also preparing for a joint naval exercise off the coast of Japan in June. Indian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force will take part in the exercise........
India and Japan also decided to take forward negotiations for civil nuclear energy cooperation, but Japanese sources later told that there were "certain elements" that needed to be addressed before entering into this partnership..........

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