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CYBER DEFENCE INDIA 2022
The Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS) and Indian Military Review will organise a Webex webinar-cum-virtual expo on "Cyber Defence India" on 10 June 2022.
Chinese Cyber Attacks
China has been leading a worldwide hacking and economic espionage campaign, using cyber attacks to steal intellectual property in disregard of bilateral and multilateral agreements.
China is one of the world’s pre-eminent players using cyber weapons. Used as methods of espionage, state-sponsored data breaches and server hacks pose a significant threat to global security. China was responsible for worldwide rise of cyber crime by 600% during the Covid-19 pandemic. Even before the virus hit, China had overtaken Russia as the biggest state sponsor of cyber attacks against the West.
A Chinese hacking group called RedEcho is believed to have attacked Maharashtra's electricity grid in March 2021, amidst an ongoing crisis in Ladakh. Hackers from North Korea penetrated the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in 2019 in a bid to test the cyber security of the plant and steal information about the reactor design.
In some ways, cyber war between India and China is already taking place - after India banned hundreds of Chinese mobile apps, limiting Chinese investments in the Indian economy and giving a bloody nose to the People's Liberation Army on the Line of Actual Control on 15 June 2020.
Extensive operations in the fifth domain of warfare, ie, cyber space have, been a reality for decades, the other domains being land, sea, air, and space. The primary objective is cyber military superiority to provide freedom of action in, through, and from cyberspace to support mission objectives. The corollary is to deny freedom of action to adversaries.
Indian Targets
In March 2013, DRDO's computers were breached by Chinese hackers, who took files related to Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), to a server in Guangdong in China and the Indian defence ministry ordered a probe.
China-linked hacker group, RedFoxtrot, from their intelligence Unit 69010, targeted India’s power sector, including conglomerate NTPC, in March 2021. RedFoxtrot's predominant targets are sectors like government, defence, and telecommunications across Central Asia, India, and Pakistan.
Some Indian targets included Walchandnagar Industries engaged in India’s Nuclear and Space programmes, and defence manufacturer Alpha Design Technologies and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).
The Times Group (Feb, Aug 2021), Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), and MP Police Department (June 2021) have been targeted by suspected Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group TAG-28, which used Winnti malware. In June 2021, APT41 was responsible for cyber attack against Air India.
Russia-Ukraine War
Cyber conflicts are fought in the shadows, but in the case of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, skirmishes have come out in the open, although the scale has not been as anticipated.
Cyber warfare has been happening between them since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Russian cyber weapon Uroburos had been around since 2005. In 2013, Op Armageddon, a Russian campaign of systematic cyber espionage on the information systems of government agencies, law enforcement, and defence agencies, began to help Russia on the battlefield. The victims of Russian cyber attacks were government agencies of Ukraine, the EU, the United States, defense agencies, international and regional defence and political organizations, think tanks, the media and dissidents.
Ukraine launched cyber attacks under Operation Groundbait in May 2016. The Surkov Leaks in Oct 2016 made public 2,337 e-mails and hundreds of attachments, with plans for seizing Crimea from Ukraine and fomenting separatist unrest in Donbas. The IT Army of Ukraine was established in Feb 2022 during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Anonymous, the hacker collective has declared cyberwar on Russia. The group has claimed credit for hacking the Russian Ministry of Defence database, and is believed to have hacked multiple state TV channels to show pro-Ukraine content.
Recent Initiatives
The creation of the Defence Cyber Agency in 2019, Cyber Security Coord at the National Security Council (NSC), preparedness for offensive ops by the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), defensive measures by National Critical Info Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) and the release of India's National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP) are steps in the right direction. As roles and responsibilities of the armed forces, other government agencies as well as the private sector are articulated, the nation's vulnerability to cyber attacks will decrease.
The vulnerabilities facing India’s Critical Infrastructure (CI) need to be addressed with greater urgency. Cyber attacks against India’s CI and Strategic Infrastructure (ST), such as nuclear power plants, are not new.
Defensive measures like having a cyber security framework, Cyber Security Awareness, Incident Response Tools, Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing, Multi-Factor Authentication and so on are necessary but offensive defence is the key. Along with space, Indian must prepare for “cross-domain” warfare to include cyberspace.
Webinar Sessions
The webinar has been organised into the following sessions:
(a) Session 1 - Inaugural
(b) Session 2 - Cyber Security Technologies
(c) Session 3 - Countermeasures Framework for Military Networks
(d) Session 4 - Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities & Protection
(e) Session 5 - Cyber Warfare Doctrine and Superiority
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FRIDAY, 10 JUNE 2022
SESSION 1 – INAUGURAL SESSION (0930 – 1030 hrs)
Welcome Address. Lt Gen Sunil Srivastava, AVSM, VSM**, Retd, Director, CENJOWS.
Inaugural Address Lt Gen Rajesh Pant, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Retd, National Cyber Security Coordinator
Keynote Address. Lt Gen Manjit Kumar, Director General Information Systems
Special Talk. Dr Sundeep Oberoi, Global Head of Cybersecurity Services, TCS.
Industry Talk. Sumit Chouhan, Principal Sales Engineer (India), BlackBerry. “Protecting Critical Information Infrastructure.”
Industry Persp. Col KV Kuber, Retd, Director Defence & Aerospace, Ernst & Young.
SESSION 2 – THREATS, CHALLENGES AND GLOBAL & NATIONAL RESPONSE (1035 – 1215 hrs)
Chairperson: Brig Ramesh Balan, VSM, HQ IDS.
1035 – 1045 hrs Introductory remarks by Chairman.
1045 – 1100 hrs “National Cyber Security Policy” Col Debashish Bose, Sr Def Specialist (Cyber), NSCS
1100 – 1115 hrs “Cyber Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War”. Brig Ramesh Balan, VSM, HQ IDS.
1115 – 1130 hrs “The Chinese Threat”. Brig Y Kaura, Brig Military Ops (Info Warfare).
1130 – 1145 hrs “Prevention-First Cybersecurity is Always Better than Cure!” Pramod Khanna, Country Manager, India & SAARC, BlackBerry.
1145 – 1200 hrs "How to stay ahead of the changing threat landscape". Bala, CTO, SecneurX.
1200 – 1215 hrs Panel discussion.
SESSION 3 – CYBER SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES AND CAPABILITIES (1220 – 1400 hrs)
Chairman: Brig AJA Pereira, SM, HQ Integrated Defence Staff.
1220 – 1230 hrs Introductory remarks by Chairman.
1230 – 1245 hrs “Countermeasures for Military Networks”. Lt Col Abhishek Singh, Army Cyber Group.
1245 – 1300 hrs “Protection of Cyber Infrastructure by NIC”. Diwan Khan, Sc F, National Informatics Centre
1300 – 1315 hrs Civil Military Fusion for Cyber Space. Dr PV Jiju, Asst Dir (Physics) CFSL, Pune.
1315 – 1330 hrs “Atmanirbharta - A Cybersecurity challenge.” Col KPM Das, CISCO.
1330 – 1345 hrs W eaponising Artificial Intelligence as related to Cyber Warfare. Devsena Mishra, Founder a2zstartup, promoter. technology initiatives.
1345 – 1400 hrs Panel discussion.
SESSION 4: CRITICAL NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION (1430 – 1600 hrs)
Chairman: Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM, former DCIDS (DIARA)
1430 – 1445 hrs Securing India’s Railway, Air Infrastructure & SCADA: Challenges & Solutions. Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM.
1445 – 1500 hrs “Securing Energy Supply Chain” Sanjay Goswami, GM-IT (HoD), Oil India Ltd.
1500 – 1515 hrs “Need for a policy on protection of critical national infrastructure” Dr Nishtha Kaushiki, Asst Professor, Central University of Punjab.
1515 – 1530 hrs "Operational Technology (OT) Security" Sanjay Vaid, Director, Risk Advisory, Deloitte India
1530 – 1545 hrs “NCIIPC’s role in PPPs for imparting training in critical infrastructure protection” Tanay Bhattacharya, Director IT, NCIIPC.
1545 – 1600 hrs Panel discussion.
SESSION 5 – NATIONAL SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION (1615 – 1720 hrs)
Chairman: Cmde Prem Reuben, Navy Cyber Group.
1615 – 1625 hrs Introductory remarks by Chairman.
1625 – 1640 hrs “Infrastructure Protection & Forensic Science” Smt KB Jena, Dir & Sc E, CFSL, Kolkata
1640 – 1655 hrs “Cyber security threats in the maritime domain” Cmde Prem Reuben, Navy Cyber Group.
1655 – 1710 hrs “Integrated Cyber Defence”. Wg Cdr N Ramakrishnan, AF Cyber Group.
1710 – 1720 hrs Closing Remarks: Lt Gen Sunil Srivastava, AVSM, VSM**, Retd, Director CENJOWS
1720 – 1725 hrs Vote of Thanks: Maj Gen Ravi Arora, Retd, Chief Editor, Indian Military Review.
SATURDAY, 11 JUNE 2022
Video Rebroadcast of Proceedings of 10 June 2022. Exhibition Open.
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