My thoughts on Sovereignty, Digital Republics, AI, Deepfakes, Deception and the road that lies ahead in 2020.

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CYBERSECURITY IN INDIA
The Decade Ahead
Saumil Shah - CEO Net Square
2 January 2020

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# whoami - Saumil Shah
THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR
• Hacker, Speaker, Trainer,
Entrepreneur(?), Author.
• 21 years in Infosec.
• M.S. Computer Science
Purdue University.
• LinkedIn: saumilshah
• Twitter: @therealsaumil

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Cybersecurity In India…

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…INDIA!

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SOVEREIGNTY
OF INDIA

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Global Power Shift
20th CENTURY 21st CENTURY

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If Information = Power, then...
Information
Generates
More
Information

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Cybersecurity in the 1990s
• Dawn of non-military cybersecurity.
• The hackers come together and an
industry is born.

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Cybersecurity in the 2000s
• Defacements
• Macro viruses, Worms
• Banking and Financial Attacks
• Phishing, Password Compromise,
Account Takeovers.
• Wikileaks, Stuxnet.

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Cybersecurity in the 2010s
• Snowden, Five Eyes, Wikileaks
• Military-Digital Complex
• Total loss of privacy
• Cambridge Analytica
• Mass data breaches, OPM
• Ransomware
• Rapidly growing exploits marketplace
• National level financial attacks

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A Brave New World

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THE DIGITAL WORLD:
NATURE'S AND PHYSICS' LAWS
DON'T APPLY HERE.
NEITHER DO YOUR GOVERNMENTS'

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Computerization, Discretion, Freedom
Sergey Bratus, Anna Shubina
December 31, 2015
Surveillance of social networking, pervasive user tracking in hopes of reaping
profits promised by “big data”, and ubiquitous failure to secure stockpiled
personal data went from being the concern of the few to making mainstream
media. We’ve learned that what hurts privacy is also likely to hurt freedom. But,
despite all these revelations, the worst and the most pervasive danger of
computerizing our everyday lives has so far avoided public attention: that
computers modify our behaviors related to discretion, professional autonomy, and,
ultimately, moral choice.
Computerization changes every area of human activity it touches, by bringing
new rules and new metrics. With enough of these at work, humans must act with an
eye to not just what they do (or should do) in the actual real-world situations, but also
to how it will look in the computer representation of it—and the latter are never
complete. And when they disagree, one must either spend the extra time and effort
“fighting the system”, bend the rules—or give up.

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All Eyes Are On…

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A Few Observations
#BREXIT
#US Elections
#CAA
…typing

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THE DIGITAL WORLD:
• THREAT INDICATORS: SIGHT,SOUND,SMELL
• DATA PERVASIVENESS
• SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION: ABILITY TO
TARGET ENTIRE POPULATIONS, ONE
INFLUENCER AT A TIME.
• TRACKING AND TELEMETRY IN REAL TIME.

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This Person Does Not Exist.com
The Faces Of The Future

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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Capabilities Of Today's Nations
Data
Dominance
Hardware
Dominance
Society &
PsyOps
Financial
Attacks
Cyberweapons
& Surveillance

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India's Emerging Digital Presence

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Cross Border Cyber Threats
Disruption of
Infrastructure
UPI, NPCI BSE, NSE Telecom
Power
Grid
Transport

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Cross Border Cyber Threats
Disruption of
Day to Day Business
Ransomware DDoS
Mass ID
Theft

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2020

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Cybersecurity in the 2020s
• Dawn of Deepfakes, Deception
Campaigns and Digital Destabilization.
• Traditional Media's days are over.
• Unmanned Armed Forces.
• Unmanned Civilian Law Enforcement.

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हमारे पास मां है!
Defence
by
Diversity
…for now

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India's Digital Position
Reaction Resistance Resilience
India's Digital
DNA
Critical
Infrastructure
AADHAR
Digital
Privacy
Bharat Crypto
Standards

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MAKE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES
CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE…WISELY

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JAI HIND
saumil@net-square.com
@theRealSaumil