Category Security & Threat Management

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

Electronics & EW, Security & Threat Management

US, Israel and India require new Tunnel Detection and neutralization technologies to stop drug and weapon smuggling, human trafficking, and cross border terrorism

Criminals, terrorists and military have been using tunnels since long time to evade detection as surface based detection methods are ineffective underground . Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troopers in Nov 2020 discovered an underground tunnel on the international…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 21, 2021

Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Global Risks & Future Threats, Security & Threat Management

Corona virus or COVID-19 widely impacted World’s economy, geopolitics, military to technology and industry

More than 248 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 5 million have died, according to a Reuters tally. From herpes and legionnaires’ disease in the 1970s, to AIDS, Ebola, the severe…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 16, 2021

Electronics & EW, Manufacturing, Security & Threat Management

DARPA GRIT program developing compact, tunable Gamma ray source for advanced accelerator technology, high-energy laser systems, and new x-ray and gamma ray detectors

Gamma rays are ionizing electromagnetic radiation, obtained by the decay of an atomic nucleus. Gamma rays are given off by stars, and by some radioactive substances. Gamma-rays travel to us across vast distances of the universe, only to be absorbed by…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 13, 2021