Category Security, Cyber & Counter-Threats

Security, Cyber & Counter-Threats examines the evolving landscape of digital conflict, hybrid warfare, and threat mitigation in an increasingly networked world.
This magazine covers cyber operations, information warfare, digital resilience, and security architectures shaping modern defense and intelligence ecosystems.
Designed for analysts, policymakers, and technology leaders, it delivers actionable insights into how states and non-state actors compete, defend, and adapt in the information age.

Cyber & Information Warfare, Industry & Market Dynamics

Data centers are attractive, lucrative targets for cyber criminals and nation-states, require security meaures & technologies

Today, majority of organizations and many government departments and agencies have shifted their databases onto the cloud to improve efficiency and productivity of resources as well as bring down costs. Unfortunately, this move has exposed sensitive information to hackers, who…...

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Rajesh Uppal
April 2, 2021

Photonics, Security & Threat Management

New efficient, high brightness, and tunable Quantum cascade laser (QCL)s technologes from mid-wave infrared (MWIR) to Terahertz region promise chemical warfare agents & hidden explosives detectors, to infrared countermeasure (IRCM) systems

Compact, chip-based lasers have conquered much of the electromagnetic spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrared, enabling technologies from digital communications and barcode readers to laser pointers and printers. Diode lasers depend on the process of electron-hole recombination: an electron from the…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 11, 2021

Critical & Emerging Technologies, Cyber & Information Warfare, Defence & Military Systems, Global Risks & Future Threats, Security & Threat Management, Space Technology, Defense & Exploration, Strategy, Policy & Governance

Indian Threat Scenario, National security threats and future military capability requirements

There are two approaches to connect Warfighting and emerging technologies. One is to consider the present and future threat environment and then through system analysis we can identify technologies required to mitigate those threats. Secondly, we can identify the emerging…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 10, 2021

Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Global Risks & Future Threats, Security & Threat Management, Weapons & Munitions

Remerging threat of Biological Weapons attack against Agricultural Targets and Agrobioterrorism, with advances in Gene editing, synthetic biology, and improved delivery systems

Food and agriculture are key elements of the critical infrastructure of every country because they provide products that are essential for life. The United States is a country with a highly developed agricultural sector. Food and agriculture constitute a sixth…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 6, 2021

Critical & Emerging Technologies, Industry & Market Dynamics, Security & Threat Management

Smart Home Security Threats , countermeasures and Technology solutions and their Market growth

FBI has reported recent crime data: 7.9 million property crimes were committed in the nation in 2015. Property crimes resulted in losses estimated at $14.3 billion in 2015. Property crime rates have steadily declined over the last ten years. In…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 5, 2021

Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Security & Threat Management, Strategy, Policy & Governance

Synthetic Biology has enhanced asymmetric Bio warfare and Bio terrorism threat posed by biological weapons, in response US launches Biodefence Strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that significant biological threats can and will emerge from nature without warning, demonstrating that a single viral strain can have a profound impact on modern society. It has also demonstrated that infectious diseases can rapidly…...

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Rajesh Uppal
March 3, 2021

Cyber & Information Warfare, Security & Threat Management

Rising security threats to Smart homes their security requirements and measures for protection

A smart home refers to a convenient home setup where appliances and devices can be automatically controlled remotely from anywhere with an internet connection using a mobile or other networked device. Devices in a smart home are interconnected through the…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 28, 2021

Defence & Military Systems, Electronics & EW, Photonics, Security & Threat Management

Terahertz Photonics breakthroughs promise ultrahigh speed communication systems to medical imaging and diagnostics, industrial quality control, and security screening

Terahertz (THz, 1012 Hz) technology is based on light sources with frequencies much lower than of visible light, and slightly higher than of microwaves. Such light sources have a number of unique capabilities, for example that it can propagate through…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 27, 2021

Cyber & Information Warfare, Global Risks & Future Threats, Security & Threat Management

Smart home devices have many security risks and threats to be exploited by hackers and Intelligence agencies for mass surveillance

The rise of the digital era has brought with it many wondrous changes to our daily lives, not least of which the fact that we now carry digital assistants with us everywhere we go in the form of smartphones, tablets,…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 27, 2021

Cyber & Information Warfare, Global Risks & Future Threats

Driverless cars vulnerable to hacking and could be used to carry out suicide attacks, Researchers developing new security solutions

Automotive industry is currently undergoing an electrification process. In a few years, every new vehicle sold will have some degree of autonomy built in. Carmakers from Google to Apple, Tesla to Volkswagen are trying to make drivers obsolete, handing control of…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 25, 2021