Praveen Dalal, Managing Partner Of Law Firm Perry4Law.
Cyber security in India needs to be strengthened as India is increasingly facing serious cyber attacks. Clearly India is not prepared to tackle these sophisticated cyber attacks. At the legal framework level as well, India has not enacted suitable cyber laws and cyber security laws in this regard.
Fortunately, some hints have been given by Indian
government regarding strengthening of cyber security in India. In
fact, a cyber
security policy of India is in pipeline. India has ignored
its cyberspace for long and for reasons better known to it India
considered cyberspace and Internet as an insignificant area that need
not to be guarded against cyber attacks.
However, India still has to cover a long gap before
its cyberspace can be considered to be reasonably safe. There are
many crucial steps that India must take immediately in this
direction.
According to Praveen
Dalal, managing partner of New Delhi based Law Firm
Perry4Law
and leading techno legal expert of Asia, Indian
Counter Terrorism Capabilities needs Rejuvenation to deal
with traditional Terrorism and Cyber Terrorism. Cyber
Warfare against India is increasing and Cyber
Security Capabilities of India must be strengthened to
tackle the same, suggests Praveen Dalal. Cyber
Security Skills Development in India must be taken
seriously and dependence upon Internet
Censorship and E-Surveillance
should be forsaken immediately, opines Praveen Dalal.
Securing cyberspace is not a regional or national
issue but is an international one. International community must also
look towards harmonisation of legal framework in this direction as
cyber attacks are global in nature. Till United Nations (UN) steps in
and enacts “universally acceptable” international
cyber law treaty and international
cyber security treaty, this problem would remain murky and
difficult to resolve. Further, nothing can benefit more than an
international
cyber security cooperation that is urgently required.
The incidences of cyber
attacks, cyber
terrorism, cyber
espionage, cyber warfare, etc are increasing against
India. We must urgently develop cyber
warfare capabilities in India to thwart growing cyber
attacks against India. Further, we must also formulate a cyber
warfare policy in India that is presently missing.
Cyber warfare is also the reason why we need to
ensure critical
infrastructure protection in India and critical ICT
infrastructure protection in India. In fact the growing
cyber
attacks are affecting Indian critical infrastructure.
Thus, cyber security capabilities through techno legal cyber security
trainings in India must be strengthened.
However, there is a grave cause of concern these
days. Human
rights in India vis-à-vis cyberspace are always ignored.
Surveillance
of Internet Traffic in India is now a normal practice
informs Praveen Dalal. Surveillance
of Internet Traffic without Procedural Safeguards is
Violative of Civil Liberties of Indians in Cyberspace, claims Dalal.
Big
brother in India is violating Indian constitution without
any check and balances in the name of national security and cyber
security and this practice must be abandoned. Instead, sufficient
cyber security skills must be developed so that cyber threats can be
effectively tackled in India.
