Chandigarh: With cyber warfare and network-centric operations gaining increasing prominence in the battlefield spectrum, the Army is revamping its network security.
A new Security Operations Centre is being established under the Army Headquarters that would identify threats to the Army’s data networks and take actions to mitigate them.
The centre will monitor all devices and servers connected on the Army Data Network (ADN) to include the servers and generate user logs in real time. These logs would be scrutinised for user behavior, assessing potential threats, sounding alerts on violation, attack or unusual behaviour, analysing incidents and auditing technical parameters.
The Army is looking to engage a civilian professional agency for implementing the project on a turnkey basis. The estimated time for setting up and validating the system is stated to be nine to 12 months after finalisation of the contracts.
Sources said the new security project would be undertaken at the Army’s Central Data Centre (CDC) that became functional about three years ago. Co-existing with the CDC is the Army’s Near Line Data Centre (NLDC), a type of rapidly assessable information storage and a Disaster Recovery (DR) site for replication of its critical data along with virtualised servers and storage.
Along with the CDC, a Digi-Locker was also launched to provide a secure and exclusive data storage space to all formation headquarters and units of the Army over a dedicated data network. Authorised users can store, share and access the data on ADN from anywhere and at any time.
“Since data and communication networks have become a critical and indispensible part of virtually all military and civilian organisations and involve transfer of large amounts of sensitive information, targeting such entities by both states as well as non-state operators for purposes such an espionage, sabotage and manipulation is an integral part of cyberwarfare and other forms of sub-conventional. (Tribune)
