Indian NavyRear Admiral Mohit Gupta was appointed in May 2019 as the first head of the DCyA.[2] The DCyA was expected to be operational by November 2019.[3] As of 2021, DCyA was fully operational with Army, Air Force, and Navy establishing their respective Cyber Emergency Response Teams (CERT).[4]
History
The Naresh Chandra Task Force was set up in July 2011 by National Security AdvisorShivshankar Menon to review the recommendations of the Kargil Review Committee, assess the implementation progress, and suggest new reforms related to national security.[5][6] The task force was led by Naresh Chandra, a retired Indian Administrative Service officer, and comprised 13other members, including Gopalaswami Parthasarathy, Air Chief Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy (retired), Admiral Arun Prakash (retired), Lieutenant General V. R. Raghavan (retired), Anil Kakodkar, K. C. Verma, and V. K. Duggal. The committee conducted the first holistic review of national security since the Kargil Review Committee and submitted its classified report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 23May2012.[7] Among its recommendations, the Task Force recommended the creation of a cyber command (DCyA), an aerospace command and a special operations command. All three units were proposed to be tri-service commands in order to bring the various special forces units of the military under a unified command and control structure.[8][9]
The Week reported that the DCyA would have the capability to hack into networks, mount surveillance operations, lay honeypots, recover deleted data from hard drives and cellphones, break into encrypted communication channels, and perform other complex objectives.[11] According to Lieutenant General Deependra Singh Hooda, the DCyA would have the responsibility of framing a long-term policy for the security of military networks, including eliminating the use of foreign hardware and software in the Indian Armed Forces, and preparing a cyberwarfare doctrine.[12]
See also
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