India needs to focus on research and development to build its technology independence. India has a strong ecosystem of academic and R&D institutions with industry and startup. India can build its research and development capabilities to position itself as the R&D hub for the world, especially for Cyber Security. To gain self-reliance in technology, roadmaps for R&D shall help to synergies their efforts in technology and engineering to build the India stack.
MeitY R&D in Cyber Security Group has embarked on seeking multi-stakeholder consultations for the Cyber Security R&D roadmaps for various the areas viz IoT Security, Mobile Security, Cyber Forensics, Cryptography. The team is conducting multi-stakeholder consultation meets at four regions of country for each roadmap, that shall be followed by inter-ministerial consultation at Delhi before its submission to NITI Aayog. The roadmap aligns to NITI Aayog’s strategy for Research and Development in the country. The development of these roadmaps and synergizing efforts of stakeholders is extremely critical and adaption will ensure safer cyber world for humans.
The IoT Security Roadmap being critical and adaption making it ubiquitous in human lives. India needs to develop indigenous tools and technologies and standards, for ensuring safe, trusted and accountable cyber world.
The draft roadmaps are published on MeitY website to seek inputs from stakeholders:
1. Improvement in the draft technology roadmap proposed.
2.Insights on emerging threats in the IoT Security landscape, not addressed in the roadmap.
3. Short term (5), medium(10-15years) and long-term technology (15-25 years) targets missed if any in the roadmap.
4. Proven research or tools that are available with your team, please submit with supporting documentary proofs.
Roadmap highlights:
The roadmap comprehensively covers hardware level security, network level security and application-level security aspects. In the draft roadmap, the following are the key focus areas (but are not limited to) in IoT security at national level:
Short Term:
In the next 5 years, the roadmap suggests to work on eSIM Cellular-IoT, IoT Device Certificate Lifecycle Management, IoT Identification, Lightweight Cryptography, IoT Network Security Orchestration and Automation, oneM2M, MLOps and Decentralized AI/ML pipelines, Blockchain assisted IoT Security, New Chip design and Standards, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), AI Enabled Privacy and Data Protection, Self-Adapting Intrusion Detection System, IoT and IoTA Tangle Distributed Ledger, 5G and IoT, Enhancement in the Automotive Security, PQC Enabled IoT System, Low-power Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG).
Mid Term (15 years):
5G and 6G Transition Security, AI Enabled Botnet detection and DNS ecosystem, Automotive supply chain attacks – Risk mitigation techniques, Self-sufficient Intelligent Network (AI), Satellite Connectivity, RISC-V based Secure SoC for IoT, Digital Twin.
Long term (25 years):
Secure IoT Network through QKD and SDN, Federated Machine Learning and Swarm Learning, Self-aware IoT Protocols and its Security, Low power PQC, Low power to No power cryptography algorithm for IoT, Deterministic Response for IIoT and Automotives, Zero Knowledge Proof.
Disclaimer: The draft roadmaps have been prepared by conducting multi-stakeholder consultations and are open for comments and suggestions. It is a constantly evolving process and roadmap shall be updated as per the comments received. The roadmaps do not limit anyone to take up research in areas not covered, instead these are roadmaps to guide the need for India’s digital technologies related to IoT Security.
