Cyber Security in India: Problems and Prospects

Cyber security has emerged in the backdrop of information, communication and technological revolution and acts as the corner stone of a connected world. Within the purview of this revolution, the international community across the globe came in confrontation with the new domain of cyber world where opportunities, e.g. communication as well as challenges are becoming paramount. Thus, the world is witnessing different hazards and dangers which have never been experienced in previous periods of history and India is no exception to this. Also, in contemporary times, the current threats faced by the global security environment emerge from the technological progress and were not bound by local origins but extends to include the global networks. Such threats transcend the limits of time and space boundaries and present a continuous and universal challenge. Thus, the inter-state relations drown into securing their economic and security threats without imposing severe restriction on cyber world. In addition, cyber-attacks have the potential to push the states into real acts of aggression and there exists no balance of power in the cyber world. In this context, the paper tries to explore the areas of cyber security out of conventional notions of security and situate India at threshold of analysis with taking different countries responses into consideration. Also, an attempt is made to identify challenges as well as possible diagnosis.