India is said to have not suffered any major economic or physical damage because of cyber attacks. Does this mean India is strong in cyber defense?
This question assumes significance especially in wake of recent revelation that hackers have reportedly broke into computer systems of US defense establishments and stole designs of weapons systems.

Dhruv Soi, Founder and Director of Torrid Networks, a CERT-IN (Computer Emergency Response Team – India) empaneled security auditor says: “Around 5 years back we did not have vision or any sort of counter measures with regard to cyber security. But things have been put in place now. ”
“No doubt security incidents are on a rise and every-time a breach happens we blame it on China. In fact, the origin of cyber-crimes is hard to detect unless there there is a detailed study. I can say even small countries like Qatar are better prepared in cyber security than India, he says adding that lack of co-ordination is what lacking in India’s cyber security preparedness.”

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