Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asked Central agencies to develop an intelligence coordination strategy, which must include offensive measures as well, with friendly nations to detect anti-India organisations and networks.
Delivering the 37th Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture, Shah said merely sharing information is not enough. “We must also ensure that we receive vital intelligence from them,” he said, according to a government statement.
“Simply being alert to anti-national elements causing physical damage is no longer sufficient,” he said, underlining the disruptive power of disinformation, misinformation, mal-information and fake news with the help of new technology. “…We must increase our vigilance regarding the rapid changes happening in areas like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and cyberspace,” he added.
Shah said attacks on critical infrastructure, cyberattacks, information warfare, psychological warfare, chemical warfare, and the radicalisation of youths have emerged as new challenges. He expressed confidence that the country’s security agencies will be able to confront these threats.
“Using misinformation to provoke separatism and communal riots, drug trade via social media, cyber espionage, and cryptocurrency-related issues have now emerged as unique sets of challenges,” he said.
In order to tackle them, agencies must step beyond traditional approaches, he added.
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