Cyber Security

There is a need to formulate a national strategy to tackle ransomware threat as this cybercrime affects governments, businesses and individuals.

• Cherian Samuel
• October 20, 2023
• IDSA Comments

Organisations must develop distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) response plans and promote a culture of cyber hygiene among their workforce.

• Rohit Kumar Sharma
• August 01, 2023
• Issue Brief

The Biden administration’s Executive Order on commercial spyware aims to address the challenges posed by unregulated proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware.

• Rohit Kumar Sharma
• May 19, 2023
• Issue Brief

The name recognition associated with multilateral organisations like the G-20 and the QUAD provides a useful entry point for creating awareness on cybersecurity issues for the common man.

• Rohit Kumar Sharma
• April 24, 2023
• IDSA Comments

The Russia–Ukraine cyberwar has upended a number of existing preconceptions about cyber conflict in an active war.

• Cherian Samuel
• February 03, 2023
• IDSA Comments

Militaries are the sword arm of the state, entrusted with defending the state against all threats that would harm its interests. These threats are increasingly emanating from cyberspace and militaries around the world are being called upon formally to undertake responsibility for defending against threats from this domain in addition to the existing physical domains of land, sea, air and space. The unique nature of this domain has required some restructuring on the part of the military.

• Cherian Samuel
• January-March 2023
• Journal of Defence Studies

The Quad has cautiously carved out a practical and cooperative agenda on issues of cybersecurity.

• Krutika Patil
• June 22, 2022
• IDSA Comments

The Russia–Ukraine conflict, as well as Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, draw light on the geopolitics of data routing and the usage of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) as a tool of control.

• Krutika Patil
• April 29, 2022
• Issue Brief

Cyberconflict in Ukraine has become normalised in that it is focused, there is no lasting damage, and it effectively conveys a sense of helplessness to the affected government and population. At the same time, it signals to other governments that they are not impervious to such attacks.

• Cherian Samuel
• February 23, 2022
• IDSA Comments

US has undertaken a number of initiatives on cybersecurity, specifically ransomware, one of them being the Counter-Ransomware Initiative Meeting held in October 2021. Whether this attempt by the US to mobilise a larger group of countries to discuss ransomware will lead to real outcomes, or is just meant to endorse its actions, remains to be seen.

• Cherian Samuel
• October 22, 2021
• IDSA Comments