The glaring
cyber security problems and challenges of India are no
more hidden and ignored. Serious cyber security attacks are affecting
the critical infrastructure of India. Banks, power infrastructures,
satellites, etc are vulnerable to cyber attacks from around the
globe.
The national imperatives of securing operational
technologies like smart grids, oil and gas, public utilities, etc are
too essential to be ignored by Indian government. Today protecting
key economic assets like securing financial backbone and stock
exchange, payment infrastructures and financial switches is need of
the hour. This includes architecting security for new age banking to
make them cyber secure. Cyber
security of banks in India is still deficient.
The business community must also keep in mind the
cyber law due diligence requirements in India. Cyber
due diligence for Indian companies is now a statutory
obligation and failure to observe cyber due diligence can bring
serious legal ramifications. Ensuring business models, technology
transformations and channel revolutions in the midst of organised,
focused, advanced and persistent cyber threats is not an easy task.
With the growth of enterprise mobility, mobile
applications and cloud enablement data driven businesses, techno
legal issues have become more prominent. Social networking platforms
have further complicated the scenario.
The Internet is truly global in nature and regional
and national regulations and efforts cannot bring the desired
results. Cyber law and cyber security issues are global in nature.
Indian
response to international cyber law treaty is not pro
active. International
cyber law treaty is required to be formulated as soon as
possible.
Similarly, cyber security framework must ensure both
national responsibility and global accountability. Any cyber
diplomacy must congregate both national and international interests
to be effective and enforceable. Thus, an international
cyber security treaty is required to be formulated as
well.
With a growing focus upon electronic
delivery (e-delivery) of services in India additional
responsibilities of securing technology transformation of governance
must be ensured. The e-governance projects of India would bring cyber
security challenges for which we need readymade solutions.
Similarly, cyber security enablement of growing
electronic and mobile commerce would also be required. With the
projected increase in volume and growth of commerce and e-commerce
in India, cyber security as enabler must be ensured.
Further, civil liberties issues like human
rights protection in cyberspace, balancing
of national security and civil liberties, balancing
of national security and right to information, etc must be
kept in mind by India.
The management of consumer
rights and business responsibilities in the information
age is not an easy task. For instance, the present telemarketing
policy of India is anti consumer. Similarly, the telecom
dispute resolution process in India is also anti consumer.
The future of cyber security in India is tough to
manage. The sooner we start working in this direction on ground
level and actual basis the better it would be for the
larger interest of India.
