National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Monday called for collective efforts to deal with challenges emanating from cybersecurity at the Friends of BRICS meeting in South Africa’s Johannesburg. He further said that the gravity of cyber risks will increase exponentially with the advent of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and the Internet of Things.
The NSA also highlighted the linkages between cyber criminals and terrorists, including the use of cyberspace for financing, money laundering, ‘radicalising’, lone wolf attacks, recruitment, and secured communications, PTI has quoted officials as saying.
Doval said that younger populations are particularly susceptible to the spread of extremist ideologies through the use of social media because they are technology savvy and have impressionable minds.
Apart from National Security Advisors of Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Belarus, Burundi, Kazakhstan, and Cuba, South African Minister in the Presidency responsible for State Security Agency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Russia’s Nikolai Patrushev, China’s Wang Yi were also present at the meeting.
Doval also held several bilaterals with his counterparts from BRICS and Friends of BRICS countries.
South Africa is hosting the BRICS Summit next month.
