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Union home minister Amit S hah, a t a G20 meeting on security and AI, urged all nations to unitedly fight “borderless” online crimes like cyber-terror, online radica lisation, sale of critical personal data and ‘toolkit-based’ misinformation campaigns, as also the growing tendency to target critical information, digital public infra structure and financial systems. The G20 event was attended by 900 delegates from member countries, nine guest nations and organisations like Interpol etc.
Shah c alled upon the G20 mechanism to bring uniformity in laws of member countries to counter digital crimes. “An integrated and stable approach to cyber security policies will facilitate interoperability, increase trust in information sharing and reduce the agency protocols and resources gaps,” he said.
Having piloted a slew of cyberspace initiatives in India to prevent, detect, fight and investigate various types of cyberthreats and attacks, the home minister sought greater coordination among cyber agencies of all countries in reporting and actio n on cyber incidents as well as investigation of cross-border cyber crimes through joint efforts to build a “peaceful, secure, deterrent and open information and communication technology”.
Underlining how the digital revolution in India has seen its online user base grow to 84 crore and digital payments jump to the world’s highest nine crore transactions in 2022, Shah said India has set up ‘open access digital public infrastructure” models like Aadhaar for digital identity and UPI interface for real time payment. “Today , all the governments of the world are promoting digital means ingovernance and public welfare,” he said. However, he acknowledged that while technology has brought hu man beings, communities and countries closer, some anti-social elements and global forces are using technology to cause economic and social harm to citizens and governments.
While recalling PM’s view that cyber security is not limited to the digital world and has become a subject of national and global security, Shah said new methods were being used by terrorists like virtual assets for terror funding, darknet to hide identity and spread radical content and metaverse to facilitate terrorist outfits to carry out propaganda, recruitment and training. He mentioned misinformation campaigns based on toolkits as anew cyberspace concern.
Shah c alled upon the G20 mechanism to bring uniformity in laws of member countries to counter digital crimes. “An integrated and stable approach to cyber security policies will facilitate interoperability, increase trust in information sharing and reduce the agency protocols and resources gaps,” he said.
Having piloted a slew of cyberspace initiatives in India to prevent, detect, fight and investigate various types of cyberthreats and attacks, the home minister sought greater coordination among cyber agencies of all countries in reporting and actio n on cyber incidents as well as investigation of cross-border cyber crimes through joint efforts to build a “peaceful, secure, deterrent and open information and communication technology”.
Underlining how the digital revolution in India has seen its online user base grow to 84 crore and digital payments jump to the world’s highest nine crore transactions in 2022, Shah said India has set up ‘open access digital public infrastructure” models like Aadhaar for digital identity and UPI interface for real time payment. “Today , all the governments of the world are promoting digital means ingovernance and public welfare,” he said. However, he acknowledged that while technology has brought hu man beings, communities and countries closer, some anti-social elements and global forces are using technology to cause economic and social harm to citizens and governments.
While recalling PM’s view that cyber security is not limited to the digital world and has become a subject of national and global security, Shah said new methods were being used by terrorists like virtual assets for terror funding, darknet to hide identity and spread radical content and metaverse to facilitate terrorist outfits to carry out propaganda, recruitment and training. He mentioned misinformation campaigns based on toolkits as anew cyberspace concern.
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