Amit Sharma

Amit Sharma is currently serving as Deputy Director in the Office of the Secretary
Defence(R&D) and Scientific Advisor of Defence Minister, Defence Research and Development
Organization (D.R.D.O), Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He has worked in the field
of Information Security, Information warfare, Strategic Information Dissemination Systems, Net
Centric Warfare, C4I2SR systems and Secure and survivable networks. He is a Chevening
Scholar and has gained his Masters in ‘Global Security’ from Defence College of Management
and Technology, UK Defence Academy, United Kingdom. He did his B Tech (honors) in
Computer Science and Technology from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India.

For his outstanding contributions he was awarded Outstanding promotion in the year 2007. He
along with his team was awarded Technology Group Award (2008). He was awarded Chevening
Scholarship by Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO), British Government for the year 2008-
2009 from India. For his work on cyber terrorism and national security issues, he was awarded
Commendation Letter by the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defence in 2009. He was
awarded dissertation prize for his monograph “The Art of Cyber wars” at the UK Defence
Academy in 2009. He is currently engaged in developing the strategies and doctrines for
futuristic cyber wars. He has delivered a number of talks on cyber warfare, cyber security and
national security issues, at various forums such the NATO Centre of excellence at Tallinn,
Estonia; Cyber security summit organised by Royal United Services Institute at London; Cyber
security summit organised by the Government of Karnataka at Bangalore; “Scientific issues in
countering terrorism” conference at Moscow; “The Conference on Cyber Security: Emerging
Cyber Threats and Challenges” at Chennai organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries
and has recently deliver a talk on cyber deterrence issues at Garmisch Germany.

He is currently writing a book titled “Cyber Warfare and National Security: When ends define
the means”, expected to be published by end of 2011. His most recent publications includes,
Cyber Wars :A paradigm shift from means to ends; Asimit – A virtual architecture for wide area
file system; BBN approach for vulnerability assessment of strategic information dissemination
systems; Xcalibur- A dynamic protocol for authentication and secure communication based on
dynamic key construction and cryptographic algorithm selection. His other research
contributions include, 69 hours, when the City stood still: The Mumbai terror attacks; Risk
management for strategic information dissemination systems; Principles of effective response
and recovery operation: Mumbai terror attacks; Open Source Intelligence: The other Side of the
Coin; Mumbai Attacks the Litmus Test for Manunta’s APT Model; Targeted Killings:
Legitimate Acts of Self Defence or Extra-Judicial Executions; Why is armed conflict such an
enduring feature of human history?; The security implications of “rural to urban” demographic
trend.