Indian Military launches tri services Defence Cyber Agency
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NEW DEHI - India’s Defence Cyber Agency has started taking shape.
The initial proposal of the Defence Cyber Agency will have close to 200-strong staff from the tri-services - Indian Army, Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force - to be headed by the Headquarters of Integrated Defence Staff (IDS), DNA has reported.
They will serve under the command of the Chairman, Chief of Staff Committee and work closely with the National Cyber Security Advisor.
“We are alive to the threat on the cyber front. To that end, we are thinking of making a cyber agency. It would not be a quite full fledged command as we have in the army.
As conscious of the fact that the threat exists, we are going in for the cyber agency. It will be headed by a two-star rank officer. It will be an inter-service agency, not purely army, functioning under the Integrated Defence Staff.
They will be looking after the threats in the cyber domain,” said Lt. Gen MM Naravane, GOC-in-C, Army Eastern Command.To begin with, the Defence Cyber Agency will be based out of the IDS Headquarters and later dedicated units will come up with the Army commands.
