Organisations have also been directed to implement periodic IT security risk assessments, back up of files critical to mission accomplishment, security awareness training of personnel and periodic testing and evaluation of technical security measures.

Type of Crisis: Large scale defacement and semantic attacks targets: High-profile national websites. e.g.: President’s, PM’s, Parliament

Crisis: Malicious Code attacks (virus/worms/Trojans/botnets) targets: Key national databases.

e.g.: tax information network, passports, reservations, hospital information systems

Crisis: Large-scale SPAM attacks

targets: ISP networks, large corporate networks

Crisis: Identity Theft Attacks (Spoofing/phishing,)

targets: High profile users in govt, users of banks, e-commerce, senior executives

Crisis: Denial of Service Attacks

targets:Public utility services, web-based key economic targets

Crisis: Domain Name Server attacks

targets:Country-level domain registry systems (.in registry)

Crisis: High-Energy Radio Frequency attacks

targets:Wireless, mobile, satellite communication networks