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DB 6 Terrorism and Transportation safety

DB 6 Terrorism and Transportation safety

Q Part 1 The technologically-driven world and increased cyber activities have led to the concentration on the need for greater surveillance and security towards cyber-related activities. Four such programs are: US¬ CERT: The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team has the aim of providing support and defense against cyber-attacks networks that are functional with the government and has the domain of .gov. It has the role of securing the internet infrastructure and ensuring sharing of information across platforms without security challenges and creating a strong network defense.

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Transportation systems are crucial to any nation, and as much as it marks development and a network that connects all, it also exposes these very structures to possible mechanisms of terrorism, and one such incident where the system exposed the lives of the Army personnel to a planned terrorists attack. In India’s Jammu and Kashmir state, Pulwama district, 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) paramilitary troopers were killed in one of the deadliest terror attacks by a suicide bomber named Adil Ahmed Dar as claimed by the outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). This planned attack to ram into the 78-vehicle CRPF convoy carrying 2,547 troopers was successful in attacking one of the buses carrying approximately 35-40 troopers with a “SUV loaded with 350 kilograms of explosives” (India today, 2019).