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Cyber Security: Security in the Age of Digital India
Dr. Kulbir Singh
Associate Professor, Deptt. of Commerce
C R Kisan College, Jind(Haryana)
Abstract:
When we talk to the visiting heads of the technology giants about the government’s
ambitious Digital India and Smart Cities initiatives, usually the focus is around scale of the
project, capacity to do it and eventually the conversation will move to the subject of cyber
security. Nowadays security breaches are a regular feature. While both Smart Cities and Digital
India will create new economic and social opportunities, they will also be creating an
increasingly large attack surface for criminals to exploit as an initial foothold or vector into
otherwise well-protected IT environments. The government initiative that seeks to transform the
country into a connected economy can be successful only when security of the connected devices
is assured. So, this lecture is about why there is a need for cyber security in the age of
digitization. This research paper is simply based on secondary data collected through books,
magazines, research papers etc.. Internet is also made use of here to gather the information and to
finding the various reports for the related information of the study.
Keywords : Cyber Security, CAMS, Digital India
Introduction: As Digital India and the
concept of Smart Cities takes shape, security
needs to be considered as integral part rather
than an afterthought. Securing data at all the
times, protection of citizen’s information at
large and security of critical infrastructure
need to be ensured through strict compliance
with the security policy and using modern
techniques, tools and processes,‖ Tarun
Kaura, director—Technology Sales, India,
Symantec, told FE.
The total digital economy being pursued
by India is going to be USD one trillion in
the next two-three years. Boston: With
India placing high priority to cyber security,
the government is in talks with a number of
countries, including the US, for co-operation
to check cyber espionage and other attacks,
Union Communications and IT Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad today said. The
minister said the ambitious Digital India
campaign has aroused great interest about
the country across the world and the total
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digital economy being pursued by India is
going to be USD one trillion in the next two- three years. "I see a lot of digital delivery of
services happening (in the next few years),"
he said, adding that governance is gradually
moving towards on the mobile phones.
India is the perfect place to seek advanced
digitalization. With 319 million internet
users and close to 214 million mobile users,
the country is a behemoth in terms of
―smartcitizens‖. Spurred by this huge user
base – and the vision of lifting India’s
economy from its current $8 trillion state to
$20 trillion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
pushes forward with the ―Digital India‖
agenda.
A core part is DigiLocker – a service
providing citizens with their own dedicated
personal storage space for government- issued e-documents, allowing for digitally
signing e-documents too.
Some plans of bigger scope contained in
the initiative are:
An increase in public free Wi-Fi spots
with 500 railway stations added (in
partnership with Google);
Expansion of the National Optical Fibre
Network so more than 600,000 villages
get ―plugged in‖ (in partnership with
Microsoft);
Laying the foundations of mobile
Governance through applications;
Empowering digital citizens and their
activity;
Building smart cities that will further
spur India’s technological growth and the
already fast expanding online services
sector.
In doing so, Modi has enlisted the help of
global tech giants such as Microsoft,
Google, Facebook, Apple and many others.
Qualcomm – a global chipmaker, has
announced the company will invest around
$150 million in mobile and Internet-of- Everything startups. Foxconn, Apple’s
largest manufacturer, will set up a base in
India. Modi’s vision for easing up the
business environment and working on
deregulation, will enable companies to enjoy
a freedom matching their taste for
innovation, and the picture painted here is
more than satisfying.
But as with most initiatives, the ―Digital
India‖ initiative is not safe from possible
security and privacy issues and in fact, they
might just be ingrained in every branching
of Prime Minister Modi’s ideas.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi Addressed the Who’s Who of the
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Tech World at the Digital India Event in
The Silicon Valley. Modi reiterated his
desire for a connected India where the likes
of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are seen
as neighborhoods, and also urged the
audience to take an active part in his pet
project. Following is the full text of Modi’s
speech, and 10 important things worth
pointing out in his speech.
1. The most fundamental debate for our
youth is the choice between Android,
iOS or Windows.
2. We have attacked poverty by using the
power of networks and mobile phones
to launch a new era of empowerment
and inclusion.
3. The pace at which people are taking to
digital technology defies our
stereotypes of age, education, language
and income. In this digital age, we have
an opportunity to transform lives of
people in ways that was hard to
imagine just a couple of decades ago.
4. M-Governance or mobile governance is
the way to go in a country with one
billion cell phones and use of smart
phones growing at high double digit
rates.
5. We want our 1.25 billion citizens to be
digitally connected. We already have
broadband usage across India go up by
63 percent last year.
6. We have launched an aggressive
expansion of the National Optical Fibre
Network that will take broadband to
our 600,000 villages. We will connect
all schools and colleges with
broadband. Building I-ways are as
important as highways.
7. We want to ensure that free Wi-Fi is
not only there in airport lounges, but
also on our railway platforms. Teaming
up with Google, we will cover 500
railway stations in a short time.
8. And, we want to turn our villages into
smart economic hubs and connect our
farmers better to markets and makes
them less vulnerable to the whims of
weather.
9. We will promote manufacture of
quality and affordable products in
India. That is part of our vision of
Make in India, Digital India and Design
in India.
As our economy and our lives get more
wired, we are also giving the highest
importance to data privacy and security,
