Realising the ever increasing threat of cyber warfare and hacking into sensitive data, the Navy is raising a dedicated cadre of officers to fight it.
The officers will be posted at all the 100-plus warships including submarines after initial training in order to make the Navy capable of operating in network-centric environment.
Stating this here on Thursday, Navy officials said the recruitment of the first batch of these officers as short service commission (SSC) officers in executive branch (information technology) has commenced and once deployed on warships after 22 weeks of training starting December they will handle open source applications and proprietary tailor made software.
Clarifying that the Navy will recruit only those officers who have a degree in computer science, computer engineering or Information Technology, officials said the dedicated cadre will design and implant secure and critical networks including manning of security and network operation centres.
The Navy is increasingly becoming network-centric and nearly all its ships are fitted with the state-of-the-art satellite-driven equipment and computers. In fact, the ultimate objective of the Navy is to give real time picture of its entire fleet deployed in far seas at the click of the mouse to the commander sitting in the Navy Headquarters here, officials said.
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