Cherian Samuel

The iDEX has made a commendable effort at putting a defence start-up ecosystem in place. The challenges ahead include maintaining momentum, obtaining funding, and accessing toolsets and data sets.

• Published: December 11, 2020
• Issue Brief

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.

• Published: December 16, 2019
• Issue Brief

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

• Published: December 26, 2018
• IDSA Comments

The UNGGE process is the least bad option to keep open channels and maintain continued focus on securing cyberspace.

• Published: March 21, 2018
• IDSA Comments

The introduction to Alexander Klimburg’s book, The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace, begins by referencing the Indian parable of the Blind Men of Hindoostan and the elephant to bring out the difficulty of ‘grasping the entirety of cyberspace’. The focus of his book is on international security, and more specifically, the security interests of states in cyberspace. That said, a large part of the book focuses on three countries—the United States, Russia and China—and their approaches and actions in cyberspace. Europe is mentioned largely in the context of privacy and data laws.

• Published: October 2017
• Journal of Defence Studies

The 2017 Conference also comes at a time when the existing international discourses on securing cyberspace, whether it be the UNGGE process or the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), seem to be unable to cope with the accelerated developments in cyberspace.

• Published: January 16, 2017
• Issue Brief

• Published: 2016
• Book

While the Wassenaar Arrangement has instant recall in nuclear circles, it has only recently become a source of turmoil in cybersecurity, after the US Bureau of Industry and Security published rules that are applicable to cyber technologies.

• Published: July 20, 2015
• IDSA Comments

While Asia is home to the largest number of internet users on the planet, there is comparatively little contribution from the region to the discussions on cybersecurity.

• Published: March 31, 2015
• IDSA Comments

Effective cybersecurity calls for a close partnership between the government in its role as custodian of the nation’s security, and the private sector, in both roles of information infrastructure provider as well as the provider of many critical services.

• Published: December 31, 2014
• IDSA Comments