India has witnessed a massive surge in cyber crime incidents in about 10 years — from just 23 in 2004 to 72,000 last year, said telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
“In the year 2004, we had only 23 incidents (of cyber crime). Last
year we had about 72,000 incidents. Media reports show as to how cyber
attacks are done to completely immobilize the financial infrastructure,
information infrastructure,” Prasad said at cyber security event
organized by The Observer Research Foundation and industry body Ficci.
As per government’s cyber security arm Computer Emergency Response
Team-India (CERT-In) 62,189 cyber security incidents were reported in
just the first 5 months this year.
Attackers compromise computer systems located in different parts of
the world and use masquerading techniques and hidden servers making it
difficult to trace them.
Prasad expressed concern over the absence of technical and legal
infrastructure to catch cyber criminals, as also the lack of mechanism
to check the unhindered growth of network of infected computer systems
and flow of global information to check cyber crimes.
“There is great imperative to have proper ecosystem where there is
meaningful cooperation. It is very important that information is
properly shared. It is equally important that there must be mechanism
for accountability in place in respect to crimes committed in
cyberspace,” he said.
Internet, mobile phones and the new media are among the finest
inventions and game changers, Prasad said, adding as to why should a few
be allowed to abuse it to destroy humanity.
He said India will support the framework of internet governance which must be inclusive and democratic.
British Member of Parliament and Secretary of State for Culture Sajid
Javid at the event said multi-stakeholder model, both to governance and
security, is the single best solution to the challenge cyber crimes,
Prasad said.
He said the UK government has spend almost a billion pound under its Cyber Security Strategy.
“It’s a great opportunity for world leaders to come together and
confront the criminals. I look forward to India taking part. We must
ensure that the internet is safe, secure and successful, but we cannot
allow that to be an excuse for further government control of
cyberspace,” Javid said.
In the United Kingdom, he added, computer-based attacks are ranked
alongside international terrorism as one of the biggest threats to
national security.
PTI
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