Cyber Security is protecting cyber space including critical information infrastructure from attack, damage, misuse and economic espionage.
Elemets of Cyber security Architecture:
- Network Elements: Network nodes like computers, NICs, repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches, routers, modems, gateways.
- Security Elements: like firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Protection Systems [IDS/IPS], encryption/decryption devices.
- Security Frameworks & Standards: Cybersecurity framework architecture standards like NIST Risk Management Framework.
Vulnerabilities to the Architecture:
- Data Diddling: Attack floods systems, servers, or networks with traffic to exhaust resources and bandwidth.
- Ransomware: Blocks access to key components of the network and demand money to unlock it.
- Phishing: The goal is to steal sensitive data like credit card and login information or to install malware on the victim’s machine
- Malware: Covertly obtains information by transmitting data from the hard drive (spyware)
- Security by Design:- To develop institutional capability for assessment, evaluation, certification and rating of core devices.
- Monitoring of Supply chain of integrated circuits.
- Product testing and certification needs to be enhanced.
- The supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) security should be integrated with enterprise security.
- A minimum allocation of 0.25% of the annual budget is required for cyber security.
- Holding cyber security drills to tackle crisis management.
- Create cyber security services under Indian enginerring services.
- Cyber insurance to address risk.
- Cyber diplomacy.
- Setting up exclusive court to deal with cyber investigation.