The initiative was chaired by Lt Gen P. K. Singh (Retd.) and Admiral V. K. Singh (Retd.). The course included a healthy discussion on various domains of cyber security, Threat Intelligence on the Dark Net, Cyber Surveillance, Cyber Warfare and Penetration Testing.
The capsule was conducted by Prashant Pandey, Chief Knowledge Officer of Kratikal Tech and Sachin Gaur, Co-Founder and Director of InnovatioCuris. Attended by members of Army, Navy, Airforce and the BSF, the course involved discussion on some real-time problems faced by the forces, while safeguarding the nation. Majority of the threats were related to safeguarding the networks and datacenters of the armed forces. Problems related to security of data, endpoints and critical resources were also discussed. Solutions related to system hardening, network hardening and secure messaging between the organisation were discussed with the attendees.
Discussion was also made on various possibilities of creating more opportunities for Public-Private Partnerships, think tanks and research groups.
The capsule was followed by a healthy discussion towards the best practises for security of the People-Process-Technology triad of an IT infrastructure. The general output was that every defence personnel, irrespective of their role in the organisation should be made aware of the basic threats and attacks, which can be launched by the enemy against military networks. “Being from army background myself, I understand the critical role cyber security can play in the information warfare. Such knowledge exchange sessions are mutually beneficial for both, the participants and the resource persons like us,” said Pandey.