Morung Express News
Dimapur | February 27
“Cyber security is a much larger virtual game than simply using passwords,” is how technocrat and international cyber analyst, Subhimal Bhattacharjee defined the complexities surrounding security in cyber space. For a lay person, whose knowledge of computers and cyber space is limited to ‘browsing’, online transactions and social media, awareness and knowing the basics would go a long way in keeping malicious cyber intrusions at bay, stated Bhattacharjee.
Bhattacharjee, who is the Country Head of General Dynamics International Corporation, was speaking at a seminar on cyber security – Cyber Defender Dimapur on Saturday. The seminar was organised by the Society for Cyber Security at Holy Cross Higher Secondary School, Dimapur on Saturday with students as its primary target audience. Students from several schools attended the seminar.
Hacking of social media accounts with malicious intent has become common occurrence. To thwart such intrusions, Bhattacharjee said the first thumb rule for users of social media is to use strong passwords while making it a habit of changing it frequently. “The password however should not be related to any of your personal credential.”
The same thumb rule applies to online banking accounts.
“However, if someone succeeds in hacking into your account, lodge a police complaint,” Bhattacharjee added. In the context of Indian law, ‘hacking’ as it has come to be known is illegal. “But there are good hackers and bad hackers,” he said referring to people who work to prevent and counter cyber attacks and those who plan and execute subversive attacks.
Stating that cyber security is getting bigger and its dynamics more complex as attacks become more sophisticated, Bhattacharjee envisaged that it would be practically impossible to make predictions on the quantum of its growth. On the flipside, this growth bodes well from an employment perspective.
According to Bhattacharjee, it is projected that around 5 lakh jobs would be required in this sector alone by 2019 in India.
“With growing knowledge and growing complexities, anything can happen today in cyber space. Everyone everywhere has to be tuned in,” he said.
