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17 Apr 2010 8ak/PIB: Facing increasing cyber attacks, Indian Defence Minister, A.K. Antony, has asked the top brass of the Armed Forces to coordinate closely with various national cyber agencies and prepare crisis management action plan to counter cyber attacks and cyber terrorism. Addressing the Unified Commanders Conference, in New Delhi, Antony said cyber-space has emerged as an important medium for information sharing but at the same time the existing technology susceptible to misuse by anti-social and anti-national elements.
Debating cyber security at such high profile conferences is a good sign of the governments willingness to tackle the growing threat, especially from China, which recently hacked into the Indian computers at various missions and important ministries, according to a report titled Shadows in the Cloud. 8ak had earlier reported that the Chinese cyber attack had resulted in the theft of sensitive information. Since hacked computers are used in these attacks, it is near impossible to prove the involvement of groups or countries but researchers have pointed fingers at China based not only on the origin of the attacks but also the nature of organisations that were targeted and the documents that were of interest to the hackers.
The two-day Conference was attended among others by Minister of State for Defence Shri MM Pallam Raju, the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal PV Naik, the Chief of Navy Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma, the Chief of Army Staff General VK Singh, Defence Secretary Shri Pradeep Kumar, Chief of Integrated Staff Committee Air Marshal SC Mukul, Commanders and Officers from the Service Headquarters and Ministry of Defence.
Meanwhile the U.S. has appointed a 3 star general, Lt General Keith Alexander to head the Pentagon's new cyber command division. According to SMH report, he said the U.S. is already defending itself from these attacks and is of a strong view that the U.S. must launch counter-attacks themselves.
Antony expressed happiness over the progress made to improve jointness among Armed Forces in various spheres. He said increasing involvement of Integrated Defence Service Headquarters in Defence issues, the functioning of Andaman and Nicobar Command and progress of Strategic Force Command are a few examples that bear testimony to the same. He said the future of optimal military power lies in joint operations that needs to start from the planning stage, itself. Towards this end, the first ever Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan 2012 2027 is nearing completion under the aegis of HQ IDS. Once finalised, it would be yet another milestone in our progress towards jointness, he said.
Deliberating on the issue of modernisation of the forces, Antony assured the Chiefs that there will never be a paucity of funds and all the financial assistance required, will be extended for the modernisation of the Armed Forces. However, he asked them to control the Revenue Expenditure* in the Armed Forces by adopting various mechanisms such as increased use of technology, integration of the three Services, adopting joint training procedures and uniform inventories. Antony said there also exists considerable scope to improve the quality and efficacy of Defence Expenditure through increased Private Sector engagement, import substitution and indigenisation, improvement in procedures & practices and better project management within the parameters of the governments policies.
8ak - Indian Defence News
Debating cyber security at such high profile conferences is a good sign of the governments willingness to tackle the growing threat, especially from China, which recently hacked into the Indian computers at various missions and important ministries, according to a report titled Shadows in the Cloud. 8ak had earlier reported that the Chinese cyber attack had resulted in the theft of sensitive information. Since hacked computers are used in these attacks, it is near impossible to prove the involvement of groups or countries but researchers have pointed fingers at China based not only on the origin of the attacks but also the nature of organisations that were targeted and the documents that were of interest to the hackers.
The two-day Conference was attended among others by Minister of State for Defence Shri MM Pallam Raju, the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal PV Naik, the Chief of Navy Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma, the Chief of Army Staff General VK Singh, Defence Secretary Shri Pradeep Kumar, Chief of Integrated Staff Committee Air Marshal SC Mukul, Commanders and Officers from the Service Headquarters and Ministry of Defence.
Meanwhile the U.S. has appointed a 3 star general, Lt General Keith Alexander to head the Pentagon's new cyber command division. According to SMH report, he said the U.S. is already defending itself from these attacks and is of a strong view that the U.S. must launch counter-attacks themselves.
Antony expressed happiness over the progress made to improve jointness among Armed Forces in various spheres. He said increasing involvement of Integrated Defence Service Headquarters in Defence issues, the functioning of Andaman and Nicobar Command and progress of Strategic Force Command are a few examples that bear testimony to the same. He said the future of optimal military power lies in joint operations that needs to start from the planning stage, itself. Towards this end, the first ever Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan 2012 2027 is nearing completion under the aegis of HQ IDS. Once finalised, it would be yet another milestone in our progress towards jointness, he said.
Deliberating on the issue of modernisation of the forces, Antony assured the Chiefs that there will never be a paucity of funds and all the financial assistance required, will be extended for the modernisation of the Armed Forces. However, he asked them to control the Revenue Expenditure* in the Armed Forces by adopting various mechanisms such as increased use of technology, integration of the three Services, adopting joint training procedures and uniform inventories. Antony said there also exists considerable scope to improve the quality and efficacy of Defence Expenditure through increased Private Sector engagement, import substitution and indigenisation, improvement in procedures & practices and better project management within the parameters of the governments policies.
8ak - Indian Defence News
