Creative Cuppa 2nd Coffee Meetup

For the 2nd Coffee Meetup, Amit Chandraker, will be giving a presentation entitled “Counter Cyberterrorism: National Security for the "Post-Mumbai Attacks" in the second coffee meet-up of Creative Cuppa on Friday, 12 December 2008, at 12:00 o’clock in the Café, David Wilson Library. Everyone is welcome to attend.

This presentation aims to review and rethink the situation of India’s national safety and security for the “Post-Mumbai Attacks” period, when the fast developing nation is under huge threat of the new challenges of terrorism with accomplice of the new media technologies.

Counter Cyberterrorism: National Security for the‘Post-Mumbai Attacks’Period
(Speaker: Amit Chandraker)

Terrorists move in cyber space. They Google to find maps, identifying exact locations and addresses of attack targets. This is exactly how terrorist attacks in Mumbai were planned. While Internet is global, there is no international legal response to cyberspace threats or crimes. A number of countries have national laws for these crimes, but they do not extend to other countries and are not harmonized with them.

So far, terrorists have used explosives, kidnappings and hijackings, but they will eventually turn to cyber-terrorism and use cyberspace technology, which will threaten pipelines, power plants, transportation and communication systems, and other hard assets based on cyberspace technology.

Cyber-terrorism is new weapon in the arsenal of global terrorists; this new method of committing acts of terrorism through cyber space (the mix between the internet & computers) which we now know as cyber-terrorism (the mix between the international and local terrorism with internet, telecom and computers, or electronic devices). Most people have no idea how much of their lives and well being is dependent upon the proper operation of networks which control the nation’s infrastructure, communications systems, financial systems and security. The biggest example we can take for this destructive activity is above mentioned places Mumbai and US. This both the places faces the negative result of new age technology. Terrorist had taken over the control on internet and belongings to that.