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The liberal dream of a neutral cyberspace is dead and the foreign threat detectors are conspiratorial and selective. Like the US, India’s threat detecting agencies must refrain from operating in silos to stop the hemorrhaging of the nation’s secrets. FROM Mongolia to the United States, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inked a cyber security pact with nearly every country he has visited.
Recently PM Sh Narendra Modi cautioned of “global threat of a bloodless war” reminding one of novelist William Gibson – largely credited for popularizing the term “cyberspace” – and his anxieties of a dystopian future. It was immediately after the 26/11 attacks that the national cyber-warfare doctrine got institutionalised under the National Technical Research Organisation, with peripheral involvement of the Indian Armed Forces and the National Security Council (NSC). Recently security vendors have disclosed five cyber campaigns targeting highly sensitive Indian establishments and corporations, stealing tons of government documents and intellectual property over many years. However, the nodal agencies responsible for containment had nothing to say.
Standing on such porous digital frontlines, a cooperative, ratified cyber-defence strategy is required. Some seminal policy initiatives have been applied since: the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC), the National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) and the National Cyber Security Policy. . Indigenisation of cyber-defence, thriving on a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem and the unbridled support of the military, is the need of the hour. The NSC has already allocated Rs. 1,000 crores for that. Bilateral technology transfer initiatives should be undertaken to facilitate the process. Notable are the successes of Israel that has captured a massive $6 billion of the global cyber market.
The US is at the cusp of a cyber-intelligence revolution. One of the major reasons why sophisticated attacks, generally called Advanced Persistent Threats, slip through the radar is because the varied commercial security products rarely ever talk to each other. Every vendor greedily holds on to the threat intelligence in an industry that heavily thrives on marketing the fear psychosis. The little information that came from specialized services was meant to be interpreted manually. It generally led to delays in incident investigations that require broadened situational awareness.
Realizing this loophole, the Department of Homeland Security spearheaded an industry-wide, threat intelligence sharing model, whose key standards are Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) and Trusted Automated exchange of Indicator Information (TAXII). These open protocols, which allow attack indicators to be shared across multi-vendor platforms in milliseconds, will form the backbone of civilian cyber-defence in the US. Almost all companies have lapped it up with Information Sharing & Analysis Centres for each of the verticals (e.g. healthcare, finance & energy, etc.) becoming the nodal bodies for such an exchange and rapid response. These are in the process of getting recognised by the American National Standards Institute, which may indirectly pave the way for global cyber intelligence regimes, not to mention a lucrative threat analytics market.
It is about time that India also got its act together. If the NCCC is indeed the agency responsible for civilian cyber defence, then national threat intelligence sharing needs to become its sole focus. Also, the NCIIPC – a pivotal organization in terms of mandate, now stymied by red tape – ought to undertake an earnest effort to define our cyber borders with the same feverish intensity as that of the Prime Minister.
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