Key Facts:
- India is among the countries with which Israel has a cybersecurity agreement.
- Israel also boasts of having 20 per cent of global private investments in cybersecurity, second only to the United States.
- In 2015, Israel had announced the setting up of the National Cyber Defence Authority, which was converted into a National Cyber Defence Directorate last year by merging another government body called the Cyber Bureau.
- This accelerated the Israeli pace in cyber security investments.
What India Can Learn From Israel?
- Israel leads the world in investment in R&D as a percentage of GDP. It happens because Israel have the highest percentage of R&D personnel per one thousand employees.
- Also, defence industry in Israel is used to leverage the civilian industry.
- As a result, almost all the top 10 new companies have major research centres in Israel.
