60% of Indian computers are vulnerable: Avast CTO

60% of Indian computers are vulnerable: Avast CTO

News:

1. With Increasing Internet penetration in the country, India can follow Japanese way to prevent cyber attacks.

Important facts:

2. To put its IT infrastructure under a protective shield, Japan last year brought stringent regulatory mechanism.
3. India can also follow the same consider the growing internet penetration in the country.
4. Country wise figures:

India:

• Over 60% of the personal computers in India were vulnerable to cyber crimes.
• As per the figures around as 18% of routers, 17% phones, 14% printers, 25% network associated storages, 4% security cameras and 2% media boxes too were vulnerable to threats in India.

Japan:

• In comparison, only 9% of personal computers, 3% phones, 25% of routers, 16% of printers and 23% of security cameras in Japan were under threat.

Hong Kong:

• In Hong Kong, about 45% of personal computers were vulnerable to cyber attacks.

China and Singapore:

• The percentage for China, the U.S. and Singapore were 39%, 38% and 33% respectively.

4. Precautionary measures:

• Most countries are taking precautionary steps with respect to hardware devices.
• Government –enabled regulations can prevent cyber crimes with the growth of Internet of Things (IoT).
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play a key role in IoT safety.
• In future, AI will identify malicious and legitimate behaviour.