• Mirza Sadaqat Huda
• CBW Magazine

• Babjee Pothuraju
• CBW Magazine

• Ralf Trapp
• CBW Magazine

• Y. Ashok Babu
• CBW Magazine

• Soumya Tiwari
• CBW Magazine

• Animesh Roul
• July-December 2011
• CBW Magazine

• Animesh Roul
• July-December 2010
• CBW Magazine

• Rajiv Nayan
• July-December 2010
• CBW Magazine

• Arvind Mishra
• April - June 2008
• CBW Magazine

War, when all else fails. The reasons for war could be ideological or for greater control over finite resources but war invariably has violence at its epicentre. Ethics and wars have rarely been concentric in human history; therefore, wars have seen the employment of all possible means. Victory, as the ultimate aim, has forced warring sides to look at multiple options and biological weapons are one such method. Biological weapons are as old as war itself and their primitive recorded use was centuries ago.

• Kishore Kumar Khera
• January-March 2021
• Journal of Defence Studies

• Ankit Kumar
• July-December 2020
• CBW Magazine

• Kapil Patil
• July-December 2017
• CBW Magazine

The article makes an attempt to bring to the fore the various factors which are considered in the due process of attribution of a cyber-attack and the correlation of credible attribution with cyber deterrence. The focal point of the article is a three-step approach to model the decision-making process behind attribution of cyber-attacks using Bayesian Belief Networks and a case study to elucidate on the functioning of the model.

• Munish Sharma
• January 2021
• Strategic Analysis

• Anshu Joshi
• January-June 2020
• CBW Magazine

• Michael Crowley
• July-December 2018
• CBW Magazine

• Raymond A. Zilinskas
• January-June 2017
• CBW Magazine

A dominant paradigm for militarised cyber operations, owing to a growing interest in such actions, is seeking an ability to strike back and launch cyber counter attacks immediately after being attacked. This commentary challenges view based on the argument that it leads to a contra-productive tit-for-tat game with no decisive or deterrent outcome. It argues that cyber attacks are information, which an initially passive targeted society can gather to refine and consolidate its cybersecurity and over time receive an advantage over the initial attacker.

• Jan Kallberg , Rosemary A. Burk
• September 2017
• Strategic Analysis

The term ‘hybrid warfare’ has been used by American military experts for more than a decade already. However, until recently, there was no officially accepted definition of the term, and, thus, an ambiguity existed over its meaning. As per the analysis of recent local conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine by the US political and military elite, hybrid warfare is a conflict where actors blend techniques, capabilities and resources to achieve their objectives.

• Vladimir I. Batyuk
• September 2017
• Strategic Analysis

In this commentary, I will use strategic cyberwar theory1 to explain why India has a higher level of cyber resilience than several of its potential adversaries. Even if India has challenges in its government-led cyber defence,2 there are cyber resilience benefits to be drawn from the way Indian society operates, functions and is constitutionally designed and accepted by its constituents, independently of any cyber defence efforts. First, the concept of strategic cyberwar.

• Jan Kallberg
• January 2016
• Strategic Analysis

India, the IT nation, did not make a news splash at CyberTech 2014. That is worth a passing thought. Because cyber is the fifth and new domain of warfare, after land, sea, air and space.

• Suryakanthi Tripathi
• January 2015
• Strategic Analysis

With a new found celebrity status among the video conferencing applications, Zoom now faces a massive privacy and security threat as the platform’s default settings are not secure enough.

• Kritika Roy
• April 11, 2020
• IDSA Comments

COVID-19 presents a unique opportunity to the global new-age mega corporations to up their game and showcase their innovativeness and resourcefulness.

• Ashish Chhibbar
• April 03, 2020
• IDSA Comments

Even after five decades of its entry-into-force, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is largely seen as a Cold War era instrument that has failed to fulfill the objective of creating a pathway towards a credible disarmament process.

• A. Vinod Kumar
• March 31, 2020
• Issue Brief

While maintaining cyber hygiene in these disruptive times is indeed a challenge, each organisation should work towards putting in place a tailor-made work-from-home cyber defence strategy.

• Kritika Roy
• March 30, 2020
• IDSA Comments

TikTok has hooked youngsters around the world. What is worrisome is the lack of understanding about the long-term implications of such social media apps with regard to data protection and national security.

• Kritika Roy
• December 24, 2019
• IDSA Comments

The existing approach to cyber security is heavily tilted towards practising deterrence by denial, essentially by building defences. However, the concept of deterrence needs further tweaking to make it workable in cyberspace.

• Cherian Samuel , Munish Sharma
• December 16, 2019
• Issue Brief

Nuclear doctrines and postures are dynamic processes that evolve with the security environment. Twenty years after India’s nuclear doctrine was first drafted, the time is ripe for a comprehensive review and suitable revisions.

• A. Vinod Kumar
• August 27, 2019
• Issue Brief

Facebook's recent proposal for a stable global cryptocurrency on social media platform has led many to anticipate its positive impact on the global economic system. However, privacy concerns and Libra's planned decentralised approach have raised apprehensions among the regulators around the world.

• Ronnie Ninan
• July 29, 2019
• IDSA Comments

The WhatsApp bug brings to light the same old dilemma between safeguarding individual privacy and enabling the state to undertake surveillance in the interest of security.

• Kritika Roy
• June 03, 2019
• IDSA Comments

In this era of complex interdependence, sudden disruptions in supply chains will not only hurt Chinese businesses in the US and elsewhere, but also damage the US economy as well as its reputation as a business destination.

• Munish Sharma
• May 22, 2019
• IDSA Comments

By implementing the Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) 2019, Singapore is demonstrating resolve to fight the growing spread of false news and misinformation campaigns.

• Ashish Chhibbar
• May 17, 2019
• IDSA Comments

A cyber exercise – whether CyberEx or its successor – needs to be developed as a platform for practitioners and thinkers to test conceptual and technical skills under near-real-world whole-of-nation scenarios of cyber contingencies.

• Munish Sharma
• May 16, 2019
• IDSA Comments

Given India’s dependence on imports for 90 per cent of its telecom equipment, the decision to allow Huawei to bid for 5G should be in line with the national interest, rather than taking sides and constraining options.

• Munish Sharma
• April 03, 2019
• IDSA Comments

Every time a cyber security organisation comes out with a decrypter to counter the effect of GandCrab, a brand new version of the ransomware is generated by effecting a small fix in the code.

• Kritika Roy
• March 22, 2019
• IDSA Comments

A slight push in the right direction would be much more productive and efficient, such as treating telecommunications as a utility rather than a market, and building innovation and IPR ecosystems rather than incentivizing licensed production.

• Munish Sharma
• March 20, 2019
• Issue Brief

India, the second largest smartphone market in the world, needs to encourage and incentivise its ICT industry to not only boost ‘Skill India’ and ‘Make in India’ initiatives but also provide cyber autonomy to its critical cyber assets.

• Ashish Chhibbar
• February 25, 2019
• IDSA Comments

With increasing advances in artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning, a new era of deep fakes has emerged, which has the potential to weaken the fabric of democratic society.

• Kritika Roy
• January 10, 2019
• IDSA Comments

For a global build-up of cybersecurity, capacity building needs to be given much more importance than it has received till date.

• Cherian Samuel
• December 26, 2018
• IDSA Comments

Paris Call could be seen as a positive step towards finding a middle path between Western democracies and authoritarian regimes on the issue of cyber governance.

• Kritika Roy
• December 18, 2018
• IDSA Comments

The BIMSTEC region offers tremendous opportunities in the field of cyber space. However, the full scope of digital dividend can only be harnessed if the countries of the region are able to get their act together and work as a team at the earliest.

• Ashish Chhibbar
• December 18, 2018
• IDSA Comments