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 Addressing
the Unified Commanders’ Conference on April
16 Antony said cyber-space has emerged as an important
medium for information sharing but at the same
time the existing technology susceptible to misuse
by anti-social and anti-national elements.
“Of late, extraordinary and unprecedented
cyber crimes have taken place across the globe,
exposing gaping holes in cyber security systems.
Although defence services at all levels have taken
steps to counter cyber threat through stringent
implementation of cyber security policy, there
is still a requirement to ensure that all loop
holes in this regard are suitably plugged.
“A few recent cases are reminders of our
own vulnerabilities. Close interaction with national
agencies like Computer and Emergency Response
Team (CERT-In), (National Technical Research Organisation)
NTRO, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry
of Communication & IT to prepare crisis management
action plan for countering cyber attacks and cyber
terrorism is essential,” he said.
According to a new study, a Chinese espionage
ring called “Shadow Network” hacked
into top secret armament and diplomatic documents
of India. During investigations conducted over
eight months by the researchers from the Toronto-based
Munk School of Cyber Affairs and Ottawa-based
The SecDev Group, the report claimed, 1,500 letters
sent from the Dalai Lama's office between January
and November 2009, were also leaked out.
Among the Indian military academic institutions
and journals' websites hacked into were that of
Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA),
naval think tank National Maritime Foundation
(NMF), India Strategic and another
defence magazines.
Antony expressed happiness over the progress
made to improve jointness among Armed Forces in
various spheres.
He said increasing involvement of Integrated
Defence Service Headquarters in Defence issues,
the functioning of Andaman and Nicobar Command
and progress of Strategic Force Command are a
few examples that bear testimony to the same.
He said the future of optimal military power
lies in joint operations that need to start from
the planning stage, itself. Towards this end,
the first ever Long Term Integrated Perspective
Plan 2012 – 2027 is nearing completion under
the aegis of HQ IDS. “Once finalized, it
would be yet another milestone in our progress
towards jointness”.
Antony assured the top commanders that there
will never be a paucity of funds for the modernisation
of the Armed Forces. However, he asked them to
control the expenditure in the armed forces by
adopting various mechanisms such as increased
use of technology, integration of the three Services,
adopting joint training / procedures and uniform
inventories.
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