ISRO).
Rajiv Chetwani, chief information security officer, ISRO, was speaking at the Bengaluru Tech Summit.
Space assets play a pivotal role in the nation’s economy, and they are also of strategic importance. Although, there are grey zone operations internationally. “It is very difficult to identify who is initiating the attack,” he said, in a panel discussion on cybersecurity and cyberwarfare.
Suhas Gopinath, chief executive officer, Globals Inc, recalled being at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences when it became the target of a major cyberattack. “The hospital could not tag the patient’s details to their blood samples because all the data was gone,” he revealed.
“This is a dangerous scenario especially with the advent of artificial intelligence. If one needs to know dark web websites, asking ChatGPT which dark web websites should I not visit should do the trick,” he said urging people not to log into ChatGPT to do this.
Gopinath also said that around 20 flights recently were redirected to Baghdad because their flight paths were manipulated.
Mysuru-based Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), a non-profit venture, is offering a free online Cyber Crime Intervention Officer (CCIO) course, said its director Captain (retd.) Anand Naidu. The online CCIO course enables participants to volunteer as first responders to cybercrime, Naidu said.
He added that trained cybersecurity professionals who can