'Terrorist activities are carried out with help of modern technologies'

G B Shaikh, VP-Security- CtrlS Datacenters Limited

“What has happened in the IoT threat landscape is an eye-opener. Anything that is getting connected to the internet has the potential to be hacked, however vigilant you may be. Gartner predicts that by 2020, the 25% IT defined enterprise attacks is actually going to the IoT side of the story. A recent instance that happened at a nuclear power station in Korea, where tight security has been broken and the information taken out also sparks alarm. Even in the 9/11 attack, the terrorist group has extensively studied the infrastructure of US and Europe through leaked information before launching an attack on the trade towers. In India the 26/11 attack was carried with advanced technologies which even our intelligence guys could not have decoded at that point in time. US National security administration has accepted that there have been 19 successful cyber attacks.”

The G B Shaikh spoke on the impact of cyber terrorism on IoT-enabled infrastructure at the 15th VARINDIA INFOTECH FORUM held in New Delhi on 25th May. The VARINDIA INFOTECH FORUM entered its 15th year by bringing together the who’s who of the ICT industry, IT consultants and senior government officials and PSUs and setting up a platform for a day-long event consisting of power-packed sessions of technical presentations, panel discussions and discourses on issues impacting the technology landscape and, most importantly, business networking. The theme of the 15th INFOTECH FORUM was – “Digitization and Role of IoT for Next-Generation Enterprise”.