http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=44472 19 Apr 2006 New Delhi, Apr 18: A day after Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee's call for tightening security procedures, the Army today announced carrying out country-wide cyber security audit by setting up a specialist security establishment. The Army headquarters has also issued security advisory to all units and set up a specialist cyber security team from the Corp of Signals to carry out a countrywide audit, a top army officer said here . "The team besides looking into security shortcomings had also issued instructions on framing Pass phrases instead of passwords for the computers and would carry out hacking operations to check vigilance of the units", he said. He said for the first time the army was now going in for automation of record of all personnels and for this 47 centres had been set up." Almost 80 per cent of the records have now been transffered to computers carrying the entire data bank on all serving personnel including officers". "We hope to have fully automated records by September this year", he said. The official also said that the army had completed laying of optic fibre links to almost all forward posts particularly in Jammu and Kashmir and besides this V-Sat network was coming up to link nearly 139 military stations to provide secure data and voice connections. Besides, this "we have now provided the smallest infantry units with briefcase mobile satellite terminals, which can be carried by soldiers in their backpacks. _________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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