Bhubaneswar: Vinaytosh Mishra, Director General of Police, CID-Crime Branch, Odisha, delivered an important message at the SOA Deemed to be University here on Wednesday.
Addressing the ‘National Conclave on Cyber Security, AI and Emerging Technologies — Securing Tomorrow’s Intelligent Systems’, Mishra said whenever a new technology is developed, it’s threat probability should be pre-assessed and an in-built infrastructure to tackle it ensured.
“While developing a new technology, care should be taken to ensure that the security aspect is embedded in it,” Mishra said.
With artificial intelligence (AI) being an integral part of any new technology, the important question is whether the developers studied its positive and negative impact, Mishra observed, pointing out that Rs 22,000 crore had been siphoned off in one year through cyber crime.
Mishra said technological companies which bring in new technologies should invest part of their profit to prevent crimes and find solutions to problems the technology is likely to create.
Urging researchers to examine the challenges and find solutions to the problems, He said, “People with ideas and capabilities and the desire to do something new are needed.”
He acknowledged that technology cannot be ignored as it empowers people, but stressed that the need of the hour is safe and secure technology.
Data Security Council of India CEO Vinayak Godse, former National Security Council Secretariat member, PMO, Lt Gen. M U Nair, International Telecommunication Union’s (Geneva) Kishore Narang, Cellular Operators Association of India’s senior advisor Vikram Tiwathia, Cybersecurity Association of India president N K Goyal and Price Waterhouse Coopers India director Dr Debabrata Nayak also addressed the inaugural session of the conclave.
SOA vice-chancellor Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda said the advent of AI and its impact had come as a big concern in the face of expanding digital infrastructure. SOA will undertake training programmes for students on cyber security, he said.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between SOA and Cybersecurity Association of India on the occasion.
Lt Gen. Nair said India had the largest digital public infrastructure in the world with 22,640 million UPI transactions in March accounting for Rs 2,952 lakh crore. He said the government can make policies but new technology will bring about new challenges, adding that academic institutions had a big role to play by debating the issue and thinking ahead.
The two-day conclave, organised by SOA in association with the Atal Incubation Centre-SOA Foundation, looks to foster collaboration, innovation and policy alignment to strengthen India’s resilience against evolving cyber threats while promoting responsible and ethical adoption of Artificial Intelligence.
