Digital Awareness

Description

Digital Awareness

Description : The last couple of years have seen most of the critical infrastructures such as banking, energy, telecommunication, defence etc. has seen implementation of information and ICT tools for its effective and efficient use across the globe. But these information systems are prone to cyber risks and vulnerabilities; these systems thus needs to be kept secure. To achieve cyber security, security professionals deploy (i) technical and security measures and (ii) develop policies for end users to implement security. But research says, humans are one of the weakest link in cyber security. Human behavior has been a key challenge that needs to be addressed. But most of time, individual users are unaware of the risks arising due to their behavior on the internet. There is thus a need to design extensive awareness and training for end users in cyber security. In an Indian scenario, implementing of awareness and training programme is a challenge considering that 1.34 billion of Indian population is divided into: (i) Urban and Rural (ii) Different states (iii) Different regional languages (iv) Different age groups (v) Different educational profile. There is a thus a need to design and develop awareness campaigns to cater to the needs of the users. Digital Cyber Awareness Campaign Challenge invites schools/colleges/universities and industries across India to design and develop digital awareness campaigns in first of its kind awareness campaign challenge. The key elements of the challenge are:

• Ease of use
• Reach
• Measurable
• Effective

INTRODUCTION ABOUT GCCS & GLOBAL CYBER CHALLENGE

Due to technology capacitation over the last few decades, every country now processes and stores information digitally, be it government secrets, military strategies or citizens’ data. The transactions and interactions that concern technology are far higher today than they have ever been which has also opened doors to newer and more advanced types of cyber-attacks. Due to heightened pervasiveness and ubiquity, a minor effect on one system drastically damages many others concurrently. So much so that even the limits of the most skilled security professionals are being pushed beyond bounds. This has given birth to a long felt need for cyber-intelligent defences and the protection of high assurance computer systems. Not just that, the threats to an ordinary citizen have also intensified along with the challenges to law enforcement bodies making it indispensable to adopt better security and response systems.

At this juncture, cyber security needs to be understood and implemented holistically regardless of an organisation’s size or scale. Computer infrastructure and networks, however closed or small they may be, are potential targets of cyber-attacks and going forward, the risks are only going to multiply given the current rate of adoption of digital technologies. This has made it imperative to be prepared and to reach a certain level of cyber-awareness. Also, to identify talent across the world that can build technologies and policies to prevent, minimise, control and recover from damages due to a cyber-attack.

With this objective of enablement and empowerment, Cyber Peace Foundation (CPF) and Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF) in collaboration with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Center (NCIIPC), are organizing the Global Cyber Challenge at the Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS), 2017.

At the outset, it has been planned that the Global Cyber Challenge will be conducted at different levels. First, an online screening round will be conducted on the MyGov portal. Then, select teams from the online round will qualify for the regional challenges which will be conducted as run-up events in line with the themes of GCCS, 2017. Several institutions across the world have been identified to act as local hosts for these challenges. Qualified teams from the regional events will participate in the grand finale which will be conducted as a side-line event during the GCCS, 2017. The aim of these events is to foster problem solving capabilities of the youth by introducing them to the real world cyber threats and to come out with technologies that can translate as effective solutions.

At the backend, these cyber challenges will serve a dual purpose: first, to identify and build a taskforce of technically competent and talented individuals who could be called as the cyber defenders and deployed for critical cyber security roles; and second, to congregate ideas, concepts and technologies to be turned into practical solutions to the cyber security issues. This will help in fostering a community of talented cyber security experts and cyber security startups to support Government of India initiatives of Secure Digital India, Start-up India, Skill India and Make in India. Creating a peaceful and harmonious Cyber Space and secure Cyber Ecosystem. We will have Talks by experts, workshops, competitions like Startup pitch, Bug Bounties, Quizzes and Hackathons.

SELECTION CRITERIA

• Round 1 : Registrations (MyGov) & Problem Statement Shared
• Round 2 : Selection of the best solutions
• Round 3 : Competitions at 8 hosting institutions (10 Teams Each)
• Round 4 : Grand Finale (10 teams * Max 3 members)

The evaluation will be based on the evaluation framework designed in collaboration with Ministry. The evaluation panel will be comprised of stalwarts from Startup Ecosystem, Industry Leaders and Domain experts.

Key Deliverables: Product (App/Project) and 1 Presentation (Max 15 slides).