Security News > 2021 > September > India, Japan flex cyber-defence muscles as China kicks the Quad
India and Japan have each flexed their cyber-defence muscles in ways that China can't miss.
India's flex came from vice-president M. Venkaiah Naidu, who on Monday visited a military museum and remarked that India's security forces should "Prepare themselves to dominate not only in a conventional war but also establish their superiority in the new and emerging areas of conflict such as information and cyber warfare along with the increasing use of robotics and drones in the battlefield".
Doubly so as he stated India faces "Both symmetric and asymmetric threats from outside and within" and then asserted India's sovereignty over Jammu & Kashmir and argued that previous arrangements that gave the territory autonomy were temporary.
Kashmiri separatists, which India labels Pakistan-supported terrorists, and China, will all have noticed the veep urging India to arm itself in the kinetic and digital realms.
China has certainly noticed last week's meeting of "The Quad" - the grouping of Australia, the USA, Japan, and India - and its announcement of plans to develop infosec standards it hopes the world will follow.
Te actions of Japan and India actions suggest the wedge is working.