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War in Ukraine: Are Russia’s Cyber Warfare Capabilities Overhyped?
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) Article

Introduction. Since the early 90s, experts have been saying that the next war will be fought in cyberspace. A ‘cyber Pearl Harbour’ would meltdown government systems, cripple critical infrastructure and plunge modern militaries and societ....

May 02, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Cyber Attack , Cyber warfare , Cyber Strategy , Cyber Defense
Protection of National Critical Information Infrastructure

India is in the next phase of digital transformation. The digital presence of economic and national security infrastructure is growing in the country at a rapid pace. All critical infrastructures are dependent and have integrated cyber technologies f....

March 21, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Technological and Scientific Studies , Cyber Security , artificial intelligence , Digital India , IOT , Quantum Computing , Critical Information Infrastructure , NCIIP , NCCC , NTRO , Critical Infrastructure , SCADA
Engage Taiwan in Cyber Security Exercises
Rup Narayan Das Commentary

Earlier this month the National Security Council of India virtually hosted the first Security Conclave on Developing Regional Cyber Security capabilities on Defensive Operations. Delegates from Members and Observer States of the Colombo Security Conc....

January 19, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , Cyber Security , Commentary , China , Xiaomi , CERT-In cyber security , Colombo security conclave , DSCI , Lithuania
Deterrence Theory– Is it Applicable in Cyber Domain?
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… effective cyber deterrence policies require regular, sustained disruption of malicious cyber activity. Such disruption can be technical, legal, logistical, financial, diplomatic, and, in some extreme cases, kinetic. Increasing the scope, scale an....

September 09, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Deterrence in cyberspace , Ddeterrence theories , Powers in cyber arena , Cyber attack attribution , Principles of cyber deterrence
Cyber Weapons – A Weapon of War?
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… cyber weapons will be used individually and blended simultaneously with conventional kinetic weapons as force multipliers … for both attacker and defender, it is difficult to predict; cyber weapons often achieve things other than their intended....

August 24, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Cyber Attack , Cyber Weapons , Methods of cyber operations , Cases of cyber attacks , Effects of cyber operations
China’s Cyber-Influence Operations
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… With its growing assertiveness in the international arena, China uses new technologies to achieve its foreign policy goals and project an image of responsible global power … spending billions on influence operations across the world ... fits i....

May 15, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , China , Cyber Security , PLA , Social Media , Intelligence agencies , China Cyber-Influence , Cyber Influence Operations , Non-Intelligence Sources , Digital Media , China’s influence campaign
Defining China’s Intelligentized Warfare and Role of Artificial Intelligence
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

China feels that U.S. is its main adversary ... China is trying to match U.S. technological capabilities with its own strength in AI as a leap frog technology and a new concept of war ... But there will be lot of problems in implementing this concept....

March 24, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Cyber Security , China’s adoption of artificial intelligence , AI in information warfare , PLA’s information operations
Cyber DNA of China –Deep, Focussed and Militarised
Dr Gulshan Rai, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The strategic goals reconfirmed by the CCP, in late 1970’s, included maintaining domestic stability; sustaining economic growth and development; defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity; safeguarding China’s interest world over. T....

March 23, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , China , Cyber Security
Internet Lockdowns: Is There Any Other Way Out?
Abhinav Pandya Article

India's internet revolution is fast transforming its political, social, cultural, and technological landscape. One of the most critical factors that ensured the landslide victory of PM Modi with his razor-sharp and a straight-forward nationalist dis....

March 23, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Cyber Security , Article , Pakistan , Kashmir , IB , Social Media , OGWs , DGISPR , foreign terrorists
India’s Cyber Deterrence Against China
Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

Cyber Threats from China: Chinese Offensive Capabilities and Modus Operandi
China raised cyber war units way back in 20031. Major objectives of these units has been cyber surveillance, manipulating network data, disseminating p....

March 12, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Cyber Security , Article , Cyber Deterrence , Cyber war , Media War , ICT Adaption , Cyber Weapons
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