Even though India showcases its world-class information technology and knowledge skills and its civilian space assets, it lags far behind China’s cyberspace capabilities. Worse, it has developed no effective means to shield its rapidly expanding cyber infrastructure from the pervasive attacks that are now being carried out both in search of competitive intelligence and to unnerve the Indian establishment.
In peacetime, China is intimidating India through intermittent cyber warfare, even as it steps up military pressure along the Himalayan frontier. In a conflict, China could cripple major Indian systems through a wave of cyber attacks. With cyber intrusions against the Indian government, defence and commercial targets ramping up since 2007, the protection of sensitive computer networks must become a national security priority.
The cyber threat is at two levels. The first is national, as manifest from the attacks already carried out against India’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) systems, the office of the national security adviser and the ministry of external affairs. By scanning and mapping some of India’s major official computer systems, China has demonstrated a capacity to steal secrets and gain an asymmetrical advantage. Cyber intrusion in peacetime allows China to understand the relative importance of different Indian networks so that it knows what to disable in a war situation.
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