Cyber Security Challenge Not Interested In Offensive Skills

Cyber Security Challenge director says the focus is on defence skills, not offensive expertise....


The government-backed Cyber Security Challenge will not be looking for those with cyber attack skills, despite MPs calling on intelligence services to increase their offensive work.......

Offensive capabilities include things like network penetration and malware creation, skills which are in demand from government contractors,  but the Challenge, which was launched two years ago in a bid to fill the growing skills gap in the security industry, will solely look at identifying and nurturing defensive skills.......

Our focus is on ensuring that the talent pool for those employing cyber security experts to defend our systems is well stocked. There is an urgent need to attract more skilled professionals into the cyber security profession. A purely offensive skills set is not something the Challenge was set up to identify..........

The  perspective of Cyber Security Challenge is to find more informed defenders. We focus on the  skills needed to spot vulnerabilities, defend networks, and extract and analyse complex forensics information..........


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Govt plans cyber offensive to tackle Chinese hackers

THE NAVY is examining the findings of a board of inquiry that probed lapses in cyber security measures in the eastern command headquarters at Visakhapatnam, leading to possible loss of data to Chinese hackers.

This incident has led to clamour for changing the countrys cyber security policy from passive to active. As of now, only defensive measures have been put in place, but security experts now want to launch an offensive through its own hacking units, a move that is being seriously pursued by the government.

The government is considering counter cyber offensive and the issue came up in the past weeks meeting of the national security council on cyber threats, headed by PM Manmohan Singh.................

Sources said the cause of threat was lapses on part of an unspecified number of officers who did not follow the procedures and used external devices in which bugs were planted by the hackers to extract information...............

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