Israel ready to be the Cyber Security partner to India
The Indian National Security Advisor Najit Doval visited Israel on the 28th February 2017 to prepare and lay the groundwork for the Historic upcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel in early July 2017. This visit, the first ever by an Indian Prime Minster, will significantly mark 25 years of diplomatic ties between the two Nations.
In November 2016, Marc Kahlberg was a member of Israel’s President, Reuven Rivlin’s delegation that visited India for the first time in nearly 20 years and it signified the growing closeness of the two Nations.
Since the upgrade of the relations between India and Israel in 1992, the two countries have focused on agriculture and defense as a main focus. India is seen globally as an IT hub of excellence, so too Israel is seen as an expert in Cyber Security solutions and the upcoming visit by Prime Minister Modi will certainly have an important agenda of broad based Cyber security subject matter.
As Israel is ready and indeed has been assisting India with comprehensive and effective cyber security plans to counter and thwart threats from extremist groups, industrial hackers and cyber thieves, the opportunity will certainly arise to introduce some of the world’s most advanced cyber intelligence technologies, leveraging some of the world’s brightest and most qualified cyber and HLS security minds with an extensive infrastructure of hard earned experience.
Companies like Israel’s Vital Intelligence Group that understand, through such experience and practice, what it takes to minimize risk through Cyber Intelligence methods of predicative and proactive concepts fusing unique technology design and integration will assist in empowering Indian companies and certain government sectors with Vital Intelligence through partnerships and recently established cooperative relations with some of India’s top companies.
On the eve of this historical visit by Prime Minister Modi to Israel and the fact that Israel is said to already be amongst the top military hardware suppliers to India, with more than $1 billion in annual sales to New Delhi according to the “Hindustan” newspaper, Prime Minister Modi will surely discuss both technological cooperation and indeed the threats and vulnerabilities that lie in the stealth but intriguing world of Cyber and Intelligence.
Close to 14 years has passed since the Al Qaida terror attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, 13 years, after possibly the worst single terror attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel, and 9 years after the 2008 Mumbai attacks in India where a series of coordinated terrorist events where carried out by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organization based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
The world witnesses mass carnage via terror and cyber threats and the influence of the media and more so the social media is so fast and so widely available today that reaction is simply a thing of the past. Today everyone lives the events that take place continents away in a live scenario. The world is at war, each with a different adversary who are committed to destroying each-others people, ways of life and freedom. The only difference today is that the borders are no longer physical, no longer relevant in many ways and each and every human being is vulnerable to a terror attack not only in the form of a vehicle ramming into innocent people anywhere on earth, as seen in Europe recently or a stabbing or suicide bombing attack but by a simple click of a button in the form of a Cyber Attack that has consequences that are so far reaching it must and certainly will be one of the high level points of discussion between Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
In the midst of these global conflicts, we all face the dual challenges of preventing terrorist attacks in any manner and any form, be it cyber carnage or physical destruction. In leveraging all possible resources to meet these obligations these two important and relevant leaders must make demands on their peers and those entrusted to protect their countries and engage in more innovational multinational proactive efforts of cooperation in the cyber security sphere and indeed turn the big data and mass amounts of information into actionable and credible intelligence.
In strengthening overall homeland security through cooperation between industries, foreign partnerships and initiatives that can be created by these two leaders, we all must be committed to assisting them in expanding and increasing our layers of defense, which extend well beyond our different borders, by seeking further cooperation with our international partners and admitting that as the free world tries to secure their Homelands, we cannot simply rely on defensive approaches and well-planned response and recovery measures.
It must be recognized and agreed that our combined efforts also must involve self –defensive methods in all aspects of the term. By deploying passive methods, policies and strategies against aggressors and offenders the criminals or enemy’s plans cannot be disrupted therefore the impact of future disasters through measures that enhance the resilience of economies and critical infrastructure before an incident occurs must be thwarted predictably and proactively.
The writer, Marc Kahlberg is the CEO and Managing Director of the Vital Intelligence Group Ltd
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