2. Internal Security Flashcards
What are the challenges to cyber security in india
- Few cases reported - digital illiteracy , fear of reputation damage
- Hardware and software - China, underpaid and unpaid
- Lack of adoption of new tech. Ex: banks magnetic strip
- Govt
- single IT ACT
- multiple agencies - Resource capabilities
- state cyber security labs
-few Indian companies make CS products
- 30000 plus cyber security vacancies
What are the types of cybercrime
- Ransom ware - aiims Delhi
- Hacking - air india serves 2021
- Phishing attack- 83% org ( PHISHING INSIGHTS 2021)
- Spyware attack
- Denial of service
- Cyber bullying / stalking
- Corporate smear
- Digital forgery
- Sale of illegal articles via dark web
Cyber offences punishable under IT act
- Destroying / altering / stealing computer system or network with malacious intent
- Corporate body which deals with sensitive info not taking reasonable security measures and causing damage
- hacking with malacious intent
4.identity theft - Violation of privacy by transmitting image of pvt area
- Cyber terrorism
- Online pornography
Way forward to handle cyber security
- Security audits, cyber forensics
- Nccpr - blue whale— cyber trivia app
- Star rating for apps
- Zero trust model.. Complete departure from implicit trust model
- Budapest convention
4D- DETER, DETECT, DESTROY, DOCUMENT
Challenges in tackling money laundering
- Technology speed - crypto currency
- non fulfillment of KYC norms- banks loosing guard
- Loopholes in law - only 23 convicted in ~ 5400 cases under pmla
—- also loopholes in double taxation avoidance agreement - Tax havens - maximum fdi from mauritius which is in fatf grey list
- Politician- b- criminal nexus. Electoral funding
- Shell companies - no proper definition in law
- India’s informal and unregulated sector - real estate, jewellery - huge amount of cash transactions without any documentation
Impacts of money laundering
- Economic crimes - in effect less money in the hands of govt- affects all the citizens
- Fuel other - drug, terrorism
- Often placed in sterile investments- no further productivity
- Bribes - social consequences
- Damage the image of financial institutions. No investments
- Monetary policy like rbis inflation targeting might fail- due to proliferation of black money
Steps taken to reduce money laundering by india
- Sebi - p note
- kyc
- Indias FIU - EGMont group
- India pushing to widen Oecd initiative - automabtic exchanve of financial info to include non financial assets
- Pmla, benami transactions prohibition act, black money act 2015
Best case – Estonia – its business environment is highly transparent the digital infrastructure helps the government to verify every transactions
Why cryptocurrency or NFT preferred for ml
1, easy to take ransom
2. Lack of govt oversight
3. Blooming of csps
4. Minimal transaction fees - easy to layer and move across globally
5. Security, anonymity , speed , ease of transfer
Determinants of naxalism
- Land related
- land reforms
- distribution of patta rights ( wb)
- 5th schedule
- forced displacement, no rehabilitation
- community land by powerful sections
** 12% of India’s tribals lives in lwe areas**
- Governance
- no basic
- absence
- poverty
- promise of establishment of jananthana Sarkar by cpi ( Maoist)- full access to resources - Socioeconomic
- untouchability
- cultural humiliation - Trust deficit
- crpf 2012, Bijapur, chattisgarh - Opium self funding
- Trijunction theory + unplanned governance
- passive state police
Security implications of social media
Non state
1. Hate speech and extremist ideologies - THE RESISTANCE FRONT ( TRF) Kashmir
2. Disinformation and propaganda- news item by WASHINGTON post - khalistani sympathisers using twitter bots for propaganda
3. Terrorist recruitment - ISIS
4. Info gathering - data mining for targeting individuals
5. Networking - planning and organising, risk mitigation by being virtual ( ex: telegram used in 2015 Paris attack )
6. Financing - soliciting funds ( ex: jihadist pages in fb)
4. Honey trapping of security officials
Others
1. Democracy - profiling people and then flooding them with real and fake news to influence behaviour
2. Fake news - migrant exodus from T.N, mob lynching
3. Deep fakes - liars dividend - phenomenon where someone can get away with lying by saying that something is “fake news”
3. Malacious software in the form of clickbaits - ransomware virus
4. Narrative set by bots and paid tweets — survival of the loudest principle
Wf for social media
- Streghthen the IT act
- Social media lab of mumbai police - train personnel
- Sathyamev jayade
- Fact check centers - factly
- Sc guidelines in tehseen ponnawala case - special task force headed by a senior officer
- it rules 2023
Famous television series CHERNOBYL opening line says THE REAL DANGER IS when we hear enough lies that we no longer recognise the truth at all
India China . Steps taken by india
Issues
1. Chinese expansionism - Xiaokang villages along Chinese border
2. Millitary aggression - galwan valley
3. Water war
4. Land exchange agreement with Bhutan - threat to India’s chicken neck corridor
5. Cartographic aggression. - unilaterally naming
6. Cpec
7. Nathula, shipkila , lipulekh - large scale snuggling
8. Multiple forces - Indian army, itbp, Assam rifles
Steps by india
1. Dhola Sadiya bridge - reduce time of troop movement
2. Infra development in north east along with Japan
3. Army infra project within 100 km of LAC no need of env clearance
India- Bangladesh . Steps taken
Issues
1. Border fencing issue , riverine low lying areas, populated areas
2. Smuggling - jamdani sarees, rice siphoned off from pds etc
3. Cattle smuggling
4. Illegal migration of Rohingyas, drug peddling among them flagged by intelligence
5. Enclaves and adverse possession- perfect for smuggling and avoiding excise and customs duty
6. Anti national elements - ULFA, ATTF, nlft
7. Radicalisation - HARKAT AL JIHAD AL ISLAMI
STEPS
1. Cibms
2. Bold qit - different sensors in unfenced area
3. Integrated check post . Clearance under one roof
4. 100th CAA - exchange of 111 enclaves
5. Sunderbans Moitry- joint exercise
India Myanmar . Steps taken
Issues
1. FREE MOVEMENT REGIME - used by insurgent groups ( like ULFA and Attf) to set base in chin state to regroup and rearm
2. Rugged terrain - difficult to construct infra to enable viable policing
3. Narcotics and golden triangle- second largest opium producer
4. Arms procurement from M based rebel groups
5. Humanitarian issue - Rohingyas
Steps
1. Integrated check post
2. Panel set up to study FMR
3. Operation sunrise
4, border passes to residents within 16 km of border to ensure better monitoring
India Nepal . Steps taken
1950 peace and friendship treaty - open border
Issues
1. Open border- insurgents, terrorists, hardcore criminals
2. Human trafficking, animal smuggling, gun running
3. Nepal Maoist ideological support to Indian Maoist - fear of insurgency
4. Reports that PAKs isi has been using Nepal to carry out anti india activity
Steps
1. Integrated check post
2. Border outposts - platform for discussing issues of mutual concern
Threats to India’s maritime security security
Geography
1. Diverse topography, weave in and out of international border
2. Mangroves- clandestine landing of arms , explosive and infiltrators
Crimes
3. Drug smuggling - operation Samudragupt
4. Human trafficking
5. Piracy
Maritime boundary
1. pakistan sir creek - thalweg principle vs eastern bank
2. Srilanka- Indian fishermen crossing srilankas territorial waters
3. Maldives - turakunnu 70nm, rising tide of radicalisation and Chinese stronghold
Chinese expansionism
1. Yuan wang 5 - dual use ship docked in habantota
2. String of pearls