Cyber
security issues in India are in limelight these days.
Cyber security players across the country are struggling to deal with
cyber
security problems of India. In fact many good and far
reaching cyber
security initiatives in India have already been launched
by private techno legal players like Perry4Law’s
Techno Legal Base (PTLB).
For instance the exclusive techno legal cyber
security research centre in India and national
cyber security database of India (NCSDI) are managed by
PTLB. These cyber security initiatives intend to strengthen the cyber
security capabilities of India.
According to Praveen Dalal, managing partner of
Perry4Law
and CEO of PTLB, Sophisticated Malware like Stuxnet,
Duqu,
Flame, etc have already proved that Critical Infrastructures around
the World like Power
Grids, Nuclear
Facilities, Satellites,
Defense
Networks, Governmental
Informatics Infrastructures, etc are vulnerable to diverse
range of Cyber Attacks. The truth is that Cyber
Attacks are affecting Indian Critical Infrastructure and
we are not even aware of the same.
It is clear that power sector of India is also not
safe from cyber attacks and power
grids cyber security in India must be strengthened. The
cyber
security challenges for the smart grids in India must be
properly understood and adequately tackled. A special care of cyber
security of automated power grids of India must be taken.
Further, cyber
security problems, issues and challenges management in India
must be part and parcel of national
cyber security policy of India. At the same time critical
infrastructure protection in India must also be ensured.
Critical infrastructure includes power grids, satellites, defence
installations, atomic plants, etc. Most of these critical
infrastructures are managed by supervisory control and data
acquisition (SCADA) systems.
SCADA may be the new cyber attack priority for cyber
criminals and rouge nations. We must ensure sufficient cyber
protection of SCADA systems in India in general and
critical infrastructure in particular.
The sooner these issues are redressed by Indian
government the better it would be for the cyber security of power
grids of India.
