‘India not prepared for cyber challenges’

As the pace of digitisation in India has grown by 90% since 2014, the country’s vulnerability to cyberattacks has increased exponentially, according to experts in the government.

Sudhir Kamath, director general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), specified that cyberattacks can be considered as the fifth dimension of war, and warned that new technologies are adding more challenges to cybersecurity today heightened by AI, big data, machine learning and quantum technologies.

He was speaking at a three-day conference on the future of security and warfare organised by the Bengaluru-based think-tank Synergia.