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@article{189602,
        author = {PRADEEPA KUMAR K.V. and Dr. Ajoy Joseph},
        title = {CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGES POSED BY CYBERSECURITY ISSUES},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {6882-6891},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=189602},
        abstract = {It is believed in well-informed circles that India's cybersecurity regime is challenged by outdated legal frameworks, fragmented coordination across institutions, acute shortage of skilled professionals and poor public awareness, among other things. Rapid digitization followed by rapid digitalisation of the country's economy and the rising sophistication of cyber threats, such as AI-driven attacks and ransomware renders the challenge even more challenging, so to speak. Given the current pace of growth of the country’s digital footprint, the rising vulnerabilities of the country’s cyber infrastructure have been coming to the fore every other day. Public and private sectors have become the prime target of cyber criminals and neither of the sectors is fully immune to cyber-attacks. The current status of the cybersecurity issues led the researcher to identify the key problems the country must contend with, in its cybersecurity space, so the researcher could recommend measures that the cyber administration must take to defend the country’s cyber space Towards this end, the researcher interacted with two important categories of respondents associated with the cyberspace, namely, owners of business enterprises and practising lawyers. The interaction led the researcher to recommend that advanced cybercrime laboratories be established in our universities and at least in all sensitive government departments to begin with, to minimise the country’s reliance on foreign hardware and software for its cybersecurity infrastructure. Additionally, given the demographic diversity of the country, the government should incentivise local players to invent tools that reckon the country’s ecosystem, which is characterised by linguistic diversity, informal economy, poor connectivity, regulatory frameworks, and cultural nuances in the main. Shockingly, even SMEs do not have adequate exposure to cyber hygiene. Hence, industry and trade bodies should train the SMEs in the art and science of handling cyberthreats lest the SMEs should miss the forest for the trees, given their weak wherewithal!},
        keywords = {cybersecurity; digitalisation; digitisation fragmented; wherewithal},
        month = {December},
        }