India is among the most cyber-attacked nations in the world and urgently needs a centralised National Cyber Security Organisation to safeguard its digital ecosystem, Rajesh Pant, Chairman of the Cyber Security Association of India and Chairman of the India Future Foundation, said.

Pant stressed that cyberspace has effectively become the fifth domain of warfare – alongside land, air, sea, and space – and India must designate a single accountable authority for its defence.

Speaking at the India Web 3.0 ‘Paving the Road to a Decentralised Future’ event organised by Moneycontrol, Pant said cybercrime has emerged as one of the world’s biggest economic risks.

“The World Economic Forum is consistently saying that cyber crime is the biggest man-made risk to the economic progress of nations. The

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