The advent of information technology has re-defined the world into a cyber world. There is also an considerable increase in cyber crime, cyber attacks in corresponding to the technology changes.The cyber warfare is also developing as a new trend of battle. The threats of cyber attacks have a deep impact on the nation and also expose the critical infrastructure like banking, financial sector to risk.

The recent reports on information technology law conclude that the active defense counter striking is needed instead of reliance on passive defense methods. A mitigated cyber defense strategy is legally justifiable as self defense though there is more legal framework needed to be implemented.

The strong cyber defense strategy generally is compromised of the elements like INTRUSION DETECTION, TRACING MECHANISMS and COUNTER STRIKES. The counter strikes can be either by punishing the attacker through retributions or minimizing the impact of damage to the information and infrastructure through mitigation. Since, we depend on the internet and online infrastructure there should be a defense strategy policy to defend cyber attacks.

Report by Sai Sushanth