Cyber War Games

While the sporting world competed and celebrated their victories on the field, another war was being fought - in cyber world. During the 12 days of the event, the games' cyber networks faced at least a 1000 potential attacks, most of them of the "denial of service" category, originating mostly in China, some in Pakistan. Overall, more than 5000 incidents were detected and thwarted. None of these, however, succeeded in penetrating even the first of the three layers of cyber security that had been installed by the Cyber Crisis Management Group which consisted of cyber experts from the intelligence agencies, Delhi Police, and the Indian government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).