FANS to hold a global conference on cyber security issues
Addressing a press conference at Haryana Bhawan on July 29, he said that the domain of Cyber has emerged as the fifth domain of warfare with an almost absolute asymmetrical nature. While it has made our lives easier and created a global village connected together with frames of optical fiber enabling communication across the world at lightning speeds, it has off late become the playing ground for state and non-state criminal activities. The vices of the physical world are now appearing in cyberspace with much more sophistication and have become a pain point in the implementation of policies and procedures for the global good.
The conference would be attended by a galaxy of cyber security professionals, decision-makers, defence professionals, and corporate and budding young netizens to celebrate “Cyber Mahotsava” and to pledge to come together to make a resilient and resurgent digital India,
Indresh Kumar said that the absolute asymmetric nature of the domain, its non-attributable nature, being devoid of geographical boundaries, and lack of dependence on the supply chain renders the domain a very potent and lethal weapon that is double-edged.
In this 75th year of India’s Independence, we pledge together to establish a resilient, robust, and efficient National Cyber Eco System, he said. Information being the key to the cyber ecosystem needs to be understood in the context of its usage, ownership, and availability. Data Sovereignty and data ownership is the underlying thought process for global Information Dominance, he added.
Indresh Kumar further said that we have seen cyber attacks in the past and continue to be surfacing off and on. Despite having the largest young and Intelligent IT force in the world, we still lack the resolve to become a global power in IT. “GROUND ZERO Summit” is our resolve in this direction to create awareness among our netizens to collaborate, cooperate and share knowledge in order to create a RING OF FIRE that can burn any external threats before they can touch our motherland in any way.
We are the Ground of ZERO and need to realize the contribution of our forefathers in the growth of this domain. GROUND ZERO summits were conceptualized to integrate the IT Human resources together and celebrate every year a MAHOTSAV with a resolve to become a global power.
National Security being the paramount goal bases itself on the tripod of a welfare state, deterrent systems, and trusted governance. The cyber domain has all the attributes to constructively engage in ensuring the goal but at the same time has tremendous capability to disrupt and disengage processes. The weapons of the cyber domain are available in the wild and can be used without making any sound and therefore, pose a greater challenge to the Nation States and their diplomatic alliances.
Alok Vijayant apprised the media about the specifics of the cyber world. FANS Organizing General Secretary, Golok Bihari Rai was also present at the press conference.
