With the vision of a trillion-dollar digital component, accounting for one-fifth of the $5-trillion national economy, the importance of cyberspace in India would only keep growing.
With the vision of a trillion-dollar digital component, accounting for one-fifth of the $5-trillion national economy, the importance of cyberspace in India would only keep growing as Indians have taken to mobile broadband like fish to water, driven by affordable tariffs, low-cost smartphones and a spurt in availability of audio-visual content in Indian languages.
However, all is not well with the cyberspace. Cybersecurity incidents observed by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) went up almost four times from 2017 to 2018, while cybercrimes went up by 77% from 2016 to 2017. Unsurprisingly, India’s global rank on the cybersecurity index slipped to 47 in 2018 from 23 in 2017, according to the UN agency ITU (International Telecommunication Union).
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Cybersecurity threats may manifest within a technical context like an unpatched software vulnerability, a malicious software or link, but mostly emanate from fear, carelessness, greed or sheer carelessness—the basic human vulnerabilities. This would only get further amplified with the onset of 5G, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, robotics, quantum computing and the Internet of Things.
Criminals can defraud unsuspecting users in sharing their bank or credit card account details with the PIN and passwords, intimidate and bully others, indulge in cyberstalking or, for that matter, could be involved in cyberespionage, terror financing or child pornography. Operations of critical infrastructure such as power grid or ports can come to a halt with ransomware, and fake news can flare up social tensions.
Criminals are quick to latch on to the trends like Covid-19. More than 4,000 fraudulent portals emerged within two months, and on a typical day in April 2020,
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