Indian Air Force (IAF) Issued Strict Rules & Discipline to Avoid Hacking
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Last month in a report we said Indian Govt is working on a robust cyber security structure, and parallely now the Indian Govt is emphasizing its security structure to fight against cyber threats. As a result of this ongoing cyber awareness, a very strict order have been issued by Indian air force to tackle and avoid cyber attacks. From now and onward every officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will now have to sign a
declaration that they will not save or view any official document on
personal computers. Failure to adhere to this directive will lead to a
court marshal and prosecution. In a recent case, operational documents were found on the personal
computer of a young pilot posted at an airbase in Tamil Nadu. A court of
inquiry has been initiated. Over the years, cyberspace has emerged as a critical frontier for
espionage as the use of computers and dependence on the internet has
grown. Thus, document security has emerged as one of critical areas of
concern for the government. It is perhaps alluding to these increasing
instances of the cyberspace being used by foreign agencies to collect
critical information. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while addressing
top cops of the country at the annual security conference hosted by the
Intelligence Bureau earlier this month, said, "Our country's
vulnerability to cybercrime is escalating... Large-scale computer
attacks on our critical infrastructure and economy can have potentially
devastating results. The government is working on a robust cyber
security structure."
As a general rule, computers in which sensitive information are stored
or prepared are never connected to the internet. "The IAF internal
communication network, for instance, is not only a stand-alone network
with no connection to the net, but also has the system configured in
such a way that it doesn't allow external storage devices like pen
drives or CDs," a senior MoD official told the press. Nonetheless, some officers have been found "keeping copies or preparing
documents using critical information in their personal computers, which
have subsequently passed out by malwares in the system or hacked," the
officer added.
Beside of developing a robust cyber security structure, there is another reason behind this decision, and that is Couple of months ago we have seen that Chinese hackers have broken into Indian Navy's Computer System & stolen sensitive data. Later, inquiries revealed that a few naval officers had, against the
rules, taken copies of the plans in pen drives from a naval computer, to
study. The Chinese-made pen drives allegedly had malwares which
transmitted the data back to IP addresses in China once they were used
on computers connected to the internet. So the Indian Govt is now very strict about data privacy, so the implemented this new rule. Such bold decisions will surely make security tight and also reduce the probability of data theft & cyber espionage.
-Source (NDTV)
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