Critical infrastructures like power utilities,
transportation, banking systems, stock markets, medical institutions,
etc are essential part of our day to day lives. There disruption for
even few hours can cause great loss and discomfort. At times this may
also result in casualties of human lives.
In these circumstances, critical
infrastructure protection in India is needed. To achieve
this we need a critical
ICT infrastructure protection policy of India that must be
formulated and implemented as soon as possible. Although a national
critical information infrastructure protection centre (NCIPC) of
India has been proposed by India yet no action has been
taken in this regard so far.
It is high time that critical
infrastructure protection (CIP) and homeland security (HS) in India
must be taken seriously and effective steps in this direction must be
taken. The best way to achieve this is to formulate a suitable
techno legal cyber
security policy of India that must include CIP aspect as
well.
Some areas that requires special attention in this
regard are cyber
security of Indian satellites and critical infrastructure,
cyber
espionage against India and its challenges, solutions and defences,
cyber
warfare against India and its defenses, cyber
terrorism against India and its defences and solutions,
etc.
Cyber
security in India and its challenges and problems cannot
be effectively managed till we have robust and techno legal cyber
security capabilities in India. We need a skilled cyber
security workforce in India that can tackle present as well as future
cyber security challenges. Cyber
security skills development in India must be ensured to
meet this objective.
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