Cyber-attacks expose a state’s vulnerabilities
Cyber-attacks on the government and significant business websites are as much a reality as physical insurgency and terrorist attacks.
Cyber-attacks on the government and significant business websites are as much a reality as physical insurgency and terrorist attacks.
The National Cyber Security Coordinator, Lt General MU Nair, represented New Delhi at the meeting
Over two billion cyber attacks were blocked in the third quarter (Q3) this year, 70 per cent of which (more than 1.6 billion) originated from India, a report showed on Monday.
Indian CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) said they struggle at some level to get support from the executive board for the resources needed to maintain cybersecurity strength, a new report said on Tuesday.
Thakur said the government has taken several measures to enhance the cyber security posture and prevent cyber-attacks.
The US and key allies accused the Chinese government of executing the recent Microsoft Exchange hack that affected more than 30,000 organisations in the US alone.
He further said that the cyber attacks targeted "state government objects, military-industrial enterprises, healthcare, transport, research and education facilities".
The Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, is known to have professed that the enemy should be weakened economically and by promoting internal strife so that the war could be won even without actual fighting. In this developing climate of multiple threats to our security, we have to gear up at all levels in official as well as private institutions against organized cyber attacks, for which the Chinese have a penchant.
Trump tweeted that the accusations were "NOT TRUE," calling the media "corrupt" and repeating accusations that journalists are "the enemy of the people."
a mid-sized organisation on an average loses $11,000 annually, revealed the Frost and Sullivan study commissioned by Microsoft
