Indian Navy has decided to raise a cyber Army of its own which would guard it  against such attacks. Indian NAcy has become the first Indian Armed force to create a separate cyber battalion.
It has aldready set in motion the process of recruiting its first batch of dedicated officers for information technology who would work at creating networks for the maritime force, man the networks and maintain the systems.
It is now looking at recruiting engineering, information technology and computer science graduates as short service commissioned officers for whom the training will begin in December.
Unfortunately, for women who may be interested in such a career, the navy’s cyber warrior cadre, as of now, will be only an all-men affair.
Only about two months ago, the navy had created a separate cell for communications, space and network centric operations (CS&NCO) under a rear admiral-rank officer, who would function as the assistant chief of naval staff (CS&NCO).
Though not a direct reason for setting up this exclusive information technology cadre, the Indian Navy had faced one of its worst cyber attacks on its Eastern Command headquartered at Visakhapatnam when a pen drive used by some of its officers had led to sensitive, secret information being passed on to China due to a malware in the device.
The navy had set up a probe into the role of six of its officers for breaching the cyber security protocol at Visakhapatnam.