After the recent three-day-long conflict between India and Pakistan, a ceasefire has been declared effective from 5:00 pm IST on May 10. Although thenceforth there is no report of any kind of physical attack from the Pakistan’s end, their aggression has not yet stopped.
During the 1971 Indo-Pak War, our Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw’s strategy included disrupting Pakistan’s communication network, which helped our forces effectively neutralise Pakistan’s ability to communicate effectively, contributing to the Indian victory and the formation of Bangladesh.
Technology has evolved much since that time. Today in most of the countries cyber networks and systems play a major role in managing the most essential utilities. In India too, most of our essential systems are connected through cyber networks. Especially, as far as our Power Grid is concerned, to a great extent it depends on IT Networks. Any successful cyber-attack on it may cause a big damage to our power infrastructure.
Many of us have already gone through a fake claim of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) that a cyber-attack launched during a military operation against India had paralysed 70% of our power grid. Although the news is false, it reveals that the demons are eyeing on our power grid.
As after the Pahalgam terror strike, Maharashtra Cyber (the nodal agency for cyber-security and cyber investigation for Maharashtra) has identified that seven APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) groups have launched over 1.5 million cyber-attacks on Indian critical infrastructure, with 150 succeeding, hereafter we have to be intensively careful.
I completely agree to the recent call of our Union Power Secretary Pankaj Agarwal, as he has instructed all states to focus on securing infrastructures, including the transmission grid and distribution systems.
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