ISO 9001:2015

CYBERSECURITY VISION FOR INDIAN BORDER AREA SECURITY

C J Jagadeesha

The India’s present Borderman needs three recipes (a) tech-savy, (b) continuum learning and (c) brave enough to enter conflict zones technologically. The cyber security of the existing physical infrastructure in the borders needs to be augmented. The critical infrastructure within the borders and in the conflict zones needs a continuous surveillance. The surveillance has to come from small satellites, geo-spatial technologies with AI, drones (UAVs), Wi-fi and a set of minimum counter measure infrastructure in all the entities be it private, public, government, NGO, the enterprises set up for serving welfare functions in the border areas. It needs investment, awareness of cybersecurity, training/capacity building of interdisciplinary graduates / whatever type of certification needed for country's security. The think tanks from present BORDERMAN has to make ways for emerging border cybersecurity men by bringing awareness, training for efficient security along the border areas of the country. The homeland security needs to be enhanced to match the world wide technology trend especially at the time of disasters. The digital skills should be imparted with cyber security in view. Department of Homeland security should bring harmonisation of cyber incident reporting and management of cyberthreats. In this, institutes like Borderman when enlarged in numbers to help in national security along borders, can help bring awareness in cyber security by providing assistance to frame policies and regulations. Also, educating masses (online or offline periodically) in the simplest cybersecurity modules like (a) password management,(b) privacy settings,(c) protection against social-engineering cyberthreats, (d) backing up data. The advanced training is already in place with universities like NFSU. The first and foremost is to have countermeasure infrastructure in place near our health centres, welfare departmental data centres (large housing complexes, oil, energy, water supply, forests and industries like mineral, cement, pharmaceuticals, and others), satellite ground stations (their number increases due to private sector participation) and transportation sectors. The curriculum is already developed and people are getting training in drone operations for agriculture, health services, revenue survey etc. This should be extended to include cybersecurity of drones, drone formations flying with appropriate PNT services either from satellites or land based.


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