SME Times News Bureau | 28 Aug, 2018
Vice President M.
Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said that the era of New Age cyber warfare, and the
new enemy can be combated only through the power of knowledge.
Addressinga
gathering on the occasion of 48th Foundation Day of Bureau of Police Research
and Development (BPR&D), Naidu cautioned against the cyber attacks by
hackers working over the Internet thousands of miles away and asked police to
be equipped to handle attacks that jeopardize national security.
He further asked
the BPR&D to evolve best practices, policies and procedures in policing to
combat emerging new age National Security threats.
The Vice President
said that knowledge and competence of our police forces and the ability to
innovate, improvise and implement will be critical in strengthening national
security.
We need a
“Surakshit Bharat” as much as a “Samruddh Bharat” and we cannot have a
“Surakshit Bharat” without a “Saksham Bharat”, he added.
Naidu said that
Indian Government has taken various measures to prevent cyber attacks and
stressed on the need to augment police response capacities.
He further said
that the set up for combating the new enemy in Cyber Space can no longer be
housed within the walls of a seemingly secure single government agency.
The Vice President
called for a reorientation of the existing paradigm and said that all security
agencies must work in close coordination and also with the private sector
manning to establish a foolproof ecosystem.
He said that
the Government & private sector must establish joint mechanisms to protect
the police a force against the future challenges, including, the threats of
modern warfare.
All police forces
of the country have to equip themselves with the cyber forensic techniques and
knowledge to counter a cyber-attack or investigate a cyber-crime, he added.