Re: Forrester analyst on India's cybersecurity policy

No kidding... an IT-sec army that is about half the size of our army !
Forcing a role like CISO, sounds similar to mandating Head-CSR. I hope
similarity ends there, and doesn't turn into another lip-service position.

What good it will do -- well I agree, it will give the NIITs and other such
informal IT finishing-schools a shot in the arm... and some more business
for the likes of Ankit Fadia. However, not sure that it is going to bring
about a radical change in the chalta-hai system, where pretty much every
government and small-business organization uses Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo
accounts. Computer Security as a subject is taught in BE/B.Tech, BSc(Comp
Sc.), BCA, MCA etc. or at least forms a chapter of some IT subject, so it's
not that people don't know what it is. However teaching cyber forensic,
true-blue black-hat, hacking/anti-hacking skills to really counter the
East-Europe, Chinese and such onslaught would take quite some effort.

Also this augurs well for firms selling security appliances (and we can
expect a windfall for them, thanks to that fiscal incentives thingy). I
hope that in the frenzy, everybody doesn't rush to buy those with default
settings -- much like an average joe buying a top-of-the-line-DSLR and then
using the "auto" mode to click snaps. Defeats the whole purpose.

The real gem there in that article however, was --

*Respect for fundamental values: All strategies place a strong emphasis on
the need for cybersecurity policy to respect fundamental values, which
generally include privacy, freedom of speech, and the free flow of
information.

*
Hard to tell, how honest government is about that statement (I really and
truly suspect), but is good to hear never the less.

PS> Sorry, but this may sound a bit pessimistic. I am no security expert
(rather far from it), but throwing half-a-million people at a complex,
fast-evolving, high-technology related problem isn't perhaps as simple and
easy as it may sound.


On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote:

> He raises a set of points (positives) that are worth looking at, and
> invites
> discussion.
>
> It would be useful to have such a discussion on gii ..
>
>
> http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/security-and-risk/2013/08/is-india-geared-up-to-handle-the-dynamics-of-cyber-age/index.htm
>
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