GS3 · 15 marks · 250 words

With the rapid digitalization of Indian society, cyber crimes like digital arrest have also increased. Highlighting the major elements of cybersecurity, Discuss the measures needed to strengthen India's cybersecurity infrastructure.

Answered by 3 toppers · CSE 2023–2025

Syllabus: Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money-laundering and its prevention.

How toppers approached it

From all 3 answers · about 230 words · 100% drew a diagram.

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The toppers’ answers

Pakshal SecretryAIR 8 · CSE 2025 · 188 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening · a figure

Recently MHA report highlighted Indians on average are loosing Rs 100-150 crore monthly to digital arrest.

Body · points

Diagram
- Bar chart depicting Rising Cyber Crimes - Y-axis: Cyber Crimes - X-axis: Years (2017, 2020, 2022) - Bar for 2017: labelled 208k - Bar for 2020: labelled 1.14mm - Bar for 2022: labelled 1.4mm

Major Element of Cyber Security

  1. At Individual level i) cyber security through antivirus malware protection ii) cyber hygiene principles
  2. At legal level i) DPDP Act → protection of personal data ii) IT Act → Due diligence for firms → Protection against cyber fraud
  3. At institutional level (i) CERT-IN → To tackle and counter cyber attacks (ii) NCIIPC → Protection of critical infrastructure from cyber attacks
  4. Technological level (i) cyber security guid → to prevent attacks (ii) Building of cyber deterrence capabilities.

Measures Needed

(A) Gulsan Rai Commultee (i) Cyber security doctrine (ii) Vulnerability analysis ad district level (iii) More funding to CERT-IN (iv) Recruitment of Talent

(B) Inderjit Rao Committee (v) focus on recovery of money in cyber fraud. (vi) Monitoring cell → At Taluka level for all system (vii) Dedicated cyber command for grey zone warfare

(C) Other Recommendation (viii) Layered system

Diagram
* A series of concentric circles illustrating a layered system: * Inner circle: Individual : Cyber hygiene * Second circle: Network : Firewall * Third circle: System : localization & safe wall * Outer circle: Nation : cyber command centre

Close · a way forward

We need to build cyber offensive capabilities to create a deterrence by hitting the attackers in their home (ghau mei ghus ke maro)

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