Conference on Cyber Security – Challenges and Innovations

Conference on Cyber Security

Question: Which of the following recently organized a Conference on Cyber Security – Challenges and Innovations?
(a)DRDO
(b)ISRO
(c)CISR
(d)ECI
Answer: (a)
Related facts:

  • On 29th October, 2018, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in association with Cyber Peace Foundation and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) organised a conference on Cyber Security – Challenges and Innovations at DRDO Bhawan, New Delhi.
  • It was inaugurated by former DRDO chief & Chief Scienti­fic Advisor to Minister of Defence and current Member of Niti Aayog, Dr. V K Saraswat.




  • The conference brought the stakeholders working in the area to showcase their innovations, current challenges and future aspects.
  • India ranks 3rd in terms of the highest number of internet users in the world after the USA and China, the number has grown 6-fold during 2012-2017 with a compound annual growth rate of 44%. India is among the top 10 spam-sending countries in the world.

Links:

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=184456

https://www.opengovasia.com/indian-ministry-of-defence-holds-conference-on-cybersecurity/