The Indian Army organised a hackathon from October of last year to January of this year in response to the rising number of cyberattacks in the nation, the most recent of which targeted AIIMS Delhi last month. The four-month event’s goals were to find solutions for operational cyber difficulties and to begin developing some cutting-edge cyber security technologies in an effort to shorten their development times, according to the Army.
The Army announced that all Indian residents were welcome to participate in the second Sainya Ranakshetram 2.0 hackathon, which was run by the Army Training Command (ARTRAC). Army Chief General Manoj Pande congratulated the contest’s prize winners online on Tuesday.
The Army stated in a statement that the event’s goals were to “provide a platform to identify indigenous talent in niche domains and enhance the standard of training in domains of Cyber Deterrence, Security Software Coding, Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO), and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ ML)”.
A Cyber Threat Seminar and Workshop was also organised, and it was divided into four sub-events: safe software writing, customised Indian Army Specific Stack for Wi-Fi 6, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cyber deterrence.
According to the Army, the purpose of safe software coding was to collaborate with academia in the area of securing software programmes and to find talent capable of writing software code that met cyber security criteria. The purpose of the customised Indian Army Specific Stack for Wi-Fi 6 was to look for ways to build a version of the Secure Wi-Fi stack that was tailored specifically for the Indian Army in order to increase security levels, it was said.
While the sub-event on Cyber Deterrence was a seven-stage cyber security exploitation challenge designed to identify talent for enhancing existing cyber security setup, the sub-event on AI and machine learning contributed to the creation of an Al stack for translation and decryption of multilingual radio transmissions.
Each of the sub-events had victors, both from the armed services and civilians. In the AI and machine learning sub-event, the winner was a 15-year-old kid from Nanded, Maharashtra.
