From: The New Indian Express

By Express News Service – CHENNAI

“Collaboration with Israel has helped India manage cyber security issues over the years,” said R K Raghavan, the former head of CBI. He was speaking at a conference on cyber security held at the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) office in the city on Friday.

Raghavan, who is currently an advisor to TCS on cyber security said that the main issue now faced by India was access to information. “The chief problem is access to information and how we control the flow of information on cyberspace. Israel has made giant strides in this aspect and there is a lot to be learned from the world leader in cyber security,” he said.

Consul General of Israel, Menahem Kanafi, who was also present at the conference, delivered a presentation on how cyber security is handled in Israel. “Compared to India, Israel has a different approach towards cyber security. While India formulated a policy and then worked from the policy to establish a ground work on cyber security, we started from the ground up and are, in fact, only currently formulating a policy,” he said and added that Israel was currently the world number one in cyber security and a global leader in privacy protection

The Consul General also informed the attendees that a large part of Israel’s defence network worked on information security. “While cyber security is often divided between civil and defence aspects, Israel takes a holistic approach including both, which enables better coordination,” he said.

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