Security implications for a wired India: Challenges ahead
Abstract India has earned a significant place in the global Information Technology (IT) industry and aspires to be an IT superpower in the future. With an expanding IT infrastructure, the nation is getting ‘wired’ to the ‘global village’ at a rapid pace. Ironically, the technology that empowers us also exposes us to new threats. These threats do not recognise borders and impinge on nearly every cross‐section of our society. The article covers the security implications for a ‘Wired India’ under the military, political, economic and social dimensions. While information security as a concept is gaining ground, a more holistic and integrated approach is imperative for bridging the gaps and warding off the threats successfully.
Information Technology: India's Tomorrow
IT has emerged as the centre of attraction and attention of not only the industry but also the political leadership, business and above all the youths of this country who are launching into their professional career. Recently India has enacted the information technology Bill paving the way for creating a structure of cyber laws.
Information, Power, and Grand Strategy: In Athena's Camp - Section 2
Abstract : According to tradition, power considerations drive strategic choices, and grand strategy consists of the knitting-together of a nation's political, economic and military resources and capabilities in pursuit of its overall aims. Indeed, the major dimensions of grand strategy have long been the political, economic, and military ones anything else has been deemed secondary, significant only as it affected the major dimensions. Information and related technologies and systems play a role in this tradition, but mainly a supporting one. Yet even though information is generally deemed a subsidiary factor, it sometimes has transformative effects. Examples abound throughout history. With regard to political power, one need only look at the effect the printing press had on society. Aside from being a catalyst for the Renaissance, the printed word succeeded in empowering individuals and states in ways previously unknown. An example is provided by the Protestant Reformation in which, despite efforts to restrict the dissemination of the Bible into the various vernaculars, the word did get out. This resulted in a movement which held, first, that the individual could enjoy a direct experience with God, as opposed to one filtered through a religious hierarchy. Second, the liberation of the individual from centralized control encouraged a number of emerging states to seek their own political independence from Rome. Thus, Lutheranism in Germany and Anglicanism in England were movements that fostered national political sovereignty as well as individual freedom of worship.