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Patching the gaps in India’s cybersecurity
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Doctrinal clarity and institutional coherence are essential for a robust cybersecurity posture
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On Sunday, February 28, there was a sensational report in
The New York Times,
China appears to warn India: push too hard and the lights could go out, based on investigations by a United States-based cybersecurity firm. It raised the possibility that the power outage in Mumbai, on October 13, 2020, could have been the result of an attack by a Chinese state-sponsored group. Maharashtra’s Home Minister acknowledged that a report by the Maharashtra Cyber Cell showed that the grid failure was potentially the result of “cyber sabotage”. Meanwhile, the Union Power Ministry denied that the grid failure was linked to any cybersecurity incident, and blamed human error for it. We cannot say who is right since not enough information is available in the public domain. And therein lies the rub.
Chinese cybercampaign against India’s power grid Discovery raises question about whether an outage that struck on October 13 in Mumbai was meant as a message from Beijing about border claims being pushed vigorously
Early last summer, Chinese and Indian troops clashed in a border battle in the remote Galwan Valley, bashing each other to death with rocks and clubs.
Four months later in Mumbai, trains shut down and the stock market closed as the power went out in a city of 20 million people. Hospitals had to switch to emergency generators to keep ventilators running amid a coronavirus outbreak that was among India’s worst.
India News: A new study lends weight to the idea that India and China's clash in Galwan Valley in June 2020 and Mumbai electricity blackout in October 2020 might
The firm believes that computer network operations (CNO) targeting strategically important organisations in India from Chinese groups will likely continue in 2021 as the nation continues to exert influence over countries that are within the sphere of their Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) investment program.