http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20050526110347 May 27 2005 NEW DELHI: Army has put in force the highest international grade systems to safeguard the country's strategic weapons firing systems as well as armed forces highly classified and high-value communications from tech-savvy hackers. "We are aware of threats posed by tech-savvy hackers to these vital systems," Army chief Gen JJ Singh said making it clear that the top most B-1 security system had been installed for operating these weapons. "These meet the top most international standards," Lt Gen Davinder Singh, the signal officer-in-chief at the Army headquarters said at the inauguration of the two-day Army-CII seminar on "Information Assurance and Risk Management". The Army chief said a frequency-hopping network had recently been inducted into the armed forces making them secure from hacking and jamming both from air as well as from ground transmissions. He said armed forces networks had not only been secured but made multi-layered at all levels for all situations, including strategic, tactical battle area, backbone communications and peace-time systems. "We have developed complete private and dedicated systems, which cannot be tampered with easily," Singh said adding that with India being in the forefront in information technology and software, the armed forces wanted to draw upon this. Asserting that efforts were constantly on to update information assurance and information denial systems, the Army chief said a road map had been set to make Indian Army at par with leading tech-savvy forces in the next decade. Cautioning that in future wars the key to success would lie in information dominance, information denial and information assurance, he said for this efforts had to be made to make soldiers "information warriors". He said cyberspace attacks could be conceived and planted without detectable logistic preparations, hence measures had to be taken to safeguard essential systems from this growing invisible threat. Stressing on having a robust, secure and fail-safe system, the Army chief said to keep pace with strides in technology, there was need to go in for a mix of customised and proprietary military equipment which would be rugged to sustain all kinds of weather and terrain. Earlier, inaugurating the seminar in which 400 experts from the world over and major information warfare equipment makers are participating, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee called for working out a national information assurance strategy which would ensure that risks to national information infrastructure was properly managed. _________________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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