Indian Army Launched Highly Encrypted Cloud System and a Digi-Locker
New
Delhi: Indian Army has
launched a highly encrypted cloud system, Army
Cloud as a part of ‘digital army’ plan. The Army Cloud would include a
central data centre, a near-line data centre along with a disaster recovery
site. The disaster recovery site would replicate army’s critical data,
virtualised servers, and storage in a controlled complex.
The Army
Cloud is similar to Meghraj, a
cloud system of National Informatics Centre and would be used to provide all IT
infrastructure, which includes servers for computing, storage, network security
equipment, etc.
As a part of ‘Digital Army Initiative’,
a Digi-Locker was also launched to
provide a secure and private data storage space to all the units over a
dedicated data network. The Digi-Locker
comes with various features, such as digital signatures, watermarking, etc.
TechSci Research depicts that with rising
demand for automation, growth in the trend of data sharing, increasing threat
of cyber warfare & cyber-attacks, and rising demand for cyber security,
launch of encrypted cloud system and digi-locker for Indian Army would fuel the
India cyber security market in the government and defense sector in the coming
years.
According to the recent report published
by TechSci Research, “Global
Cyber Security Market
By Security Type (Network Security,
Content Security, etc.), By Solutions (Identity & Access Management, Risk
& Compliance Management, etc.), By End Use Industry, By Region, Competition
Forecast and Opportunities, 2011-2021”, global market for cyber security is
projected to surpass USD137 billion by 2021. Growing trend of Bring Your Own
Device (BYOD), rising adoption of cloud computing, expanding market for
Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to continue driving the cyber security
market across the globe over the next five years.