Amid increasing cyberattacks, Army organises event to seek innovative solutions to cyber challenges

“The event was aimed at providing a platform to identify indigenous talent in niche domains and enhance the standard of training in domains of Cyber Deterrence, Security Software Coding, Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ ML),” the Army said in a statement.

Additionally, a Cyber Threat Seminar and Workshop was held under four sub-events, which included secure software coding, customised Indian Army Specific Stack for Wi-Fi 6, Artificial Intelligence, and machine learning and cyber deterrence.

The aim of secure software coding was to engage with academia in the field of securing software programmes and identifying talent capable of undertaking cyber security requirements in software code, said the Army. The customised Indian Army Specific Stack for Wi-Fi 6 was held to seek solutions to implement an Indian Army-specific version of Secure Wi-Fi stack for increasing the levels of security, it added.

The sub-event on AI and machine learning helped create an Al stack for translation and decryption of multilingual radio transmissions, while the one on Cyber Deterrence was a seven-stage cyber security exploitation challenge meant for the identification of talent for enhancing existing Cyber Security setup.

There were winners in each of the sub-events—both from the defence forces and civilians, including a 15-year-old student from Maharashtra’s Nanded Mithil Salunkhe in the AI and machine learning sub-event.

The Army plans to engage with them to fast track development of cyber security tools and techniques.