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Te 4thSecureI 2013, the National Conerence on IC in Public Saety, Security and Disaster Management, took place at Te Oberoi,New Delhi, on March 8, 2013. Te conerence was presented by eGov Magazine and jointly organised by Elets echnomedia Pvt Ltd andCentre or Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS).

Te SecureI 2013 saw healthy debate on new technology applications and services that are already being or will be deployed in utureto improve national security and moderate the afermath o natural and manmade disasters. Tere were discussions on critical issuessuch as threat o cyber terrorism, data security, security against malware and use o IC in border security.

National Security is a vast subject, but the SecureI 2013 did manage to bring to light some o the most innovative ideas or nationalsecurity and effective disaster management.

Developing a road map for NationalSecurity and Disaster Management

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Te concept o state has originated rom security because people want tohave security. In due course o time that concept became the concept ostate and kingdom. Tere are three type o security physical security,security in the financial wealth and the intellectual property.

In physical security each and every person should be well protected

against all kinds o problems and aggression. Secondly, there is the aspecto security in the field o finances; this means that each and every personshould be able to secure his or her wealth, whether it is in digital ormor in physical orm. And the intellectual property. We have to ensurethat intellectual property is also secured. In all these three areas IC canplay a very important role. We got to create large number o awarenessamong people regarding cyber security.

I we want to grow, the citizens o that society must have the sense osecurity. oday IC is playing a vital role in creation o security systemsbeing used around the world. We have to try to come with a mechanismthat will ensure that all human beings are secured.

In case o terrorism and anti-social elements, we can make use o digi-

tal cameras, we can make use o UAVs. In all these systems IC can playa very very important role. Te MHA and lot o other departments andorganisations are working on this area and i we can create a collaborativeplatorm where academia, industry, bureaucracy and the implementingagencies get together, we may find solutions to many o these problems.

Te nature o external threat has changed over the years. Tesecurity threat due to cyber aspects have become ar moreimportant as compared to the physical aspects. We have to takethe new technological developments into account and accordinglyorumate our strategies.

I think there is need or much greater awareness, consciousnessand preparedness in our security ramework. Tis is true on aglobal scale. Governments are starting to become aware o thethreats that emanate rom cyber verticals. In order to saeguard ournational interests we have to prepare ourselves ully or meetingnew challenges in the cyberspace.

I think there is need or much greater awareness, consciousness

and preparedness at all levels at the operational level, strategiclevel and policy level. Tere needs to be awareness about theimplications o cyber security, how it is transorming the nature owarare, the nature o threats internal and external.

In February 2013, the European Union issued ComprehensiveNew Cyber Security Directives, which mandate all its membercountries to put in place new and comprehensive cyber securitymeasures. India too needs to update its systems or meeting thecyber security threats.

Shankar Agarwal

Additional secretary, Ministry of Defence,

Government of India

Rajiv Gauba

Additional Secretary, DeitY, Ministry of

Communications & IT, Government of India


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e-Governance is

All about Inclusive

Growth????

When you monitor everybody, you and me are also getting monitored

and then we come to the privacy issues. We come to the question of

who is going to monitor the people who are monitoring us? Because

so long as the crooks are doing it, we have the police to sort them out.

And when look at privacy issues I think these issues are of very serious

concern. It involves human rights.

Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch,SM, VSM (Retd), Director, Centre for

Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS)

By 2001 and 2002 we found that most of the crimi-

nal elements and most of the terrorists are making

use of the Internet, which we could not follow at

that point of time. Technological preparedness can

do more for securing the nation than our physicalpresence at the borders. We have now started

taking a serious look at the issues of cyber security

for securing the nation on this new frontier.

ArunChaudhar

y

DirectorGenera

l,

SashastraSeem

aBal

Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma

Managing Director, NIELIT

Cyber-crimes are new class of

crimes. The government of India is

planning that services have to be

delivered at the doorstep of the citi-

zens. It has to be ensured that it is

done in a transparent way. Now we

have to go for a system where we

can go for periodic or non-periodic

survey of making a system secure.

Alok Tripathi

Joint-Director, NIELIT

Capacity building in IT security

and cyber crime and forensic is

quite different from the traditional

IT environment. For traditional IT

environment, we need IT infra-

structure, we require people to be

trained, we require software and

tools and then the trainer has to

train the people.

A K Sharma

Director, Delhi Fire Service

Saving life in a blazing fire situa-

tion is a tedious task. Technology

can make the work of firefighters

much safer. Fire services must

utilise the latest technology in the

field. GPS and GIS can be put effec-

tively in our day-to-day activities.


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We have very regular dialogue with the homeland security department.

Ministry of Home Affairs is the nodal agency for dialogue on various

aspects of airport security, counter terrorism or border management. It

is happening regularly between India and Washington and we learn lot

of things from them. We learn about how systemically they have made

changes in their processes, all this is very helpful to us.

Loknath Behra,Inspector General of Police, National

Investigating Agency

Security is never perfect. The matter is how do we

secure our things with available technologies. There

will always be a next generation technology, more

powerful, more costly. Privacy and security comes

at the cost of the other. These are the huge chal-lenges that we must address in the coming years.

DrGovind

SeniorDirector,

DeitY

,

GovernmentofIndiaand

CEO

,NationalIn

ternet

ExchangeofInd

ia(NIXI)

Dr Hanuman Prasad Shukla

Director, National Institute ofElectronics and Information

Technology (NIELIT)-Gorakhpur

We need to implement innovative

strategies for safeguard the nation.

We have to out-think the attacker

and predict his next step.

Maj Gen (Dr) J K Bansal

Member, National DisasterManagement Authority

Disaster management definitely

needs technology. Whatever

technology we develop, it should

be used and implemented. First

and foremost, technology should

be made available to all those

who are involved in disaster

managemet.

Col KPM Das

Vice President, National Secu-rity Solutions, Cisco Systems

The proposition here is that while

the systems are getting deployed,

there should be an underlying

assurance that all the security

related systems are being imple-

mented. The gaps in the network

level should not be exploited by

criminals and aliens.


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For tidal observation we have got 125-year old data. In most of the

sea ports there is tidal observatory. These are online transmitted to a

national data centre and integrated with the national GPS data centre

so that the locations and data are located in real time and it is available

to all user groups in real time.

Major General Ramesh Padhi

Military Survey (MoGSGS)

The whole idea of passport seva project is people

centric. It is service oriented project. This has

set a high benchmark for the country to emulate

in terms of swift project execution. It is a truly

universal and global project. It can happen in

India or Guatemala, where we have our embassy

or consulate, you will serviced through the same

application and same portal. The project has thus,

global footprint.

MukteshKPardeshiJoint

Secretary(PSP)

&Chief

PassportOfficer,Ministry

ofExternalAffairs

,Govern-

mentofIndia

M Moni

Deputy Director General ,National Informatics Center,

Government of India

National animal disease reporting

system and the other one is national

database on fishing vessels. There

are 200,000 fishing vessels which are

operational and this database is being

used by Navy, coast guards, marine

police and is being used by all organisa-

tion associated with marine fishing.

Lt General Rajesh Pant

VSM, Commandant, MilitaryCollege of Telecommunication

Engineering

The three issues of concern for the

future of information security profes-

sional the first one is a convergence

of the electronic warfare and cyber

security. Second aspect is related to

embedded malware. And the third one

is insider attack, or the man in the

middle becoming a vehicle for attack.

Dr Rajendra Kumar

Joint Secretary, DeitY,Government of India

Now that we have multiple serviceproviders, vendors, implementers,

we are grappling with major securityrelated issues. Different vendors may

enter at different points of time andthey may follow different procedures,

which may be relevant at that pointof time, but with passage of time they

lose relevance. These proceduresneed to be changed and advanced.


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We cannot say that we can eliminate threat or breaches. These things

will always be there no matter how secure we become. But we have to

see that the breach, which has been done in any organization cannot

harm the organisation.

Ruchin Kumar

Security Evangelist, SafeNet India Pvt Ltd

Cyberspace does not require a passport, it does

not have a national boundary. The risk today is

huge; the consequences of any criminal activity

can be quite significant and even disastrous. This

is because the systems are being managed andrun through software soloutions. These software

solutions can be targetted remotely leading to lot

of damage.

RaviSaxena

AdditionalChief

Secretary

,Department

ofScience&Tec

hnology

,

GovernmentofGujarat

Rajesh Agarwal

Secretary IT, Government ofMaharashtra

Mostly we think of cyber security

as something that is equivalent to

fighting an external attack, but the

truth is that the cyber security is

being fought within the systems.

Today any database in the country

is purchaseable, and that is the

reality.

Renu Budhiraja

Sr Director & HOD State DataCentres, e-Governance, DeitY,

Government of India

When you talk about e-Governance

scenario, the security has to be dealt

end-to-end. It is a big challenge.

The number of infected computers

is enormous, 20 lakh plus. That is

the challenge we need to look and

address. There is also issue regarding

implementation of security policies.

Ram Narain

Deputy Director General(Security), Department of

Telecom, Ministry of Communi-

cation and Information Technol-

ogy, Government of India

We have one philosophy and

principle. The philosophy was that

let us build in security into the

system rather than having add-on

feature into it.


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For the last three years, I had been managing Delhi traffic. The traffic

police is prosecuting around 10,000 people every day and the act,

which governs traffic enforcement is Motor Vehicle Act 1988 and I think

it looks ridiculous that every time a traffic offender is caught he is

caught as a first offender because there is no digitization of facts.

Satyendra Garg

Inspector General of Police, Mizoram

I look at cyber security from three different

angles one is application security and

the user, second is system security and the

third is network security. If we have to have

secured networks, it is essential we haveend-to-end security. It is essential for each

user to be fully educated.

LtGeneralSP

Kochhar

AVSM

,SM

,VSM

,Signal

Officer-in-C

hief

&Senior

ColonelComma

ndant

S Suresh Kumar

Joint Secretary (Centre-State),Ministry of Home Affairs,

Government of India

Looking at a country like India, with

different culture, different milieu,

If anyone wants to do a project, he also

has to look at in terms of what is going

to be the evolving technologies, can you

do it within three years in a very very

very close fashion. Any optimism and

ambition in that process is not called for.

Subrata Das

Industry Director, PublicServices, SAP India

SAP tries to address community

preparedness, volunteer manage-

ment and critical area infrastruc-

ture management.

Sajan K Paul

Director Systems Engineer-ing India & SAARC, Juniper

Networks

We are doing device tagging, we

are going beyond IP address. If the

hacker is coming from website, we

can actually inject (even with his

privacy settings on) around 20 plus

cookies into his browser and then

track him from other areas.


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V L Kantha Rao

President & CEO,

National e-Governance

Division (NeGD), DeitY,

Government of India

We have lot of infrastruc-

ture and applications in

the e-governance domain.

We have realised that

the measures regarding

the cyber security in the

egovernance domain is

piecemeal.

Vikas Yadav

Senior Sales Engineer,

Websense

We should have modern

security for modern

threats. Threat comes

from outside to inside, we

should also analyse what

is going from inside to

outside.

BJ Shrinath

Senior Director, CERT-

In, DeitY, Governmentof India

Awareness about cyber

security can make a lot

of difference and I think

thats what w all should

be doing. Technology in

one hand gives you the

freedom but on the other

hand it immediately takes

away your freedom that

you will not realize.

Puneet Ahuja

Senior TechnicalConsultant, Juniper

Networks

The security threat

approach has to be two-

leveled approach one is

the service provider level

and second at the enter-

prise level. Data passing

from one organization to

another should be logged

somewhere.

We are looking for location finders. Once we get the exact location

through GPS it is not difficult for us. So technology and innovation

can make a great difference in disaster response and disaster pre-

vention. There is a lot to be done in integrating technology with the

security system.

PM Nair

IPS, Director General, National Disaster Response Force

The statistic shows that insider attacks count

for as much as 85 percent of computer

internet related crime. Out of these majority

of the insiders are priviledged users and

a large number of attacks occur throughthem. Most of the attacks are due to weak

authentication. Authentication in the security

arena is a very big player.

VibhaAgrawal

VicePresident,

GovernmentVertical,

CATechnologies

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