Section 323

For years they had been working as part of different agencies with the same aim, doing similar jobs. Now for the first time a Joint Command Center for Cyber Warfare has been set up, with a deceptive name - Section 323 or Section Cyber Warfare. Composed of Cyber Security and Network Security experts from National Intelligence Agency, Central Bureau of Investigation, Strategic Reconnaissance Agency, National Reconnaissance Agency, Strategic Engineers Corps, Research and Testing Directorate, Royal Cochin Special Forces and Varma Institute of Fundamental Research and ace hackers and crackers identified from several walks of life by CBI, Section 323 would be the principal Cyber Warfare unit of the Kingdom of Cochin. Ultra secretive, Section 323 does not advertise. Its discrete office at Bangalore is tucked away amidst the sprawling Electronic City Campus ensures a degree of anonymity for its staff. The building housing Section 323 is also one of the best protected in Bangalore with its entire Security being undertaken by Royal Cochin Special Forces albeit under guise of civilian security personnel. Unknown to the other companies operating in the building even the facility management at this secure building is managed by Central Bureau of Investigation.

It is from these premises that the defenders of the Kingdom's Networks work from. With access to every principal Government Department, ISPs and the Online Service Providers Section 323 is always on the watch for attacks against the IT infrastructure of the nation. Though at any time Section 323 may not have more than 200 staff at its office in Bangalore, its personnel are assigned to IT Services department in every major Government office. These officers may not have the designation of Cyber Security Officers but their jobs would be to ensure the security of these departments. When faced with significant attacks they call in support from Section 323. Section 323 also has teams stationed at the three National Communications Databases.

The role of Section 323 is not just defense but also offense. As the Fifth Domain of Warfare, Section 323 also evaluates possibilities of attack against nations and organizations potentially hostile to the Kingdom. With the assistance of NIA and SRA they are able to hack into commercial communication satellites and with the resources of a nation state and intellectual backups of some of the brightest minds in the world Section 323 is capable of launching covert attacks against the Kingdom's enemies in such a manner that all traces relating to the Kingdom would be erased. Section 323 is capable of targeting the Infrastructure, Power, Banking, Industrial, Communication and Trading sectors of enemies. The offense team is also involved in designing worms and malware which can be implemented by NIA Officers to cripple any hostile nation's infrastructure. It also actively assists NIA in gaining intelligence from enemy targets. 

National Communications Database

In order to safeguard the Kingdom from cyber warfare from within and without National Intelligence Agency, Central Bureau of Investigation, National Reconnaissance Agency and Strategic Reconnaissance Agency are operating as a joint venture the National Communications Database. A redundant secure system with three parallel physical operation centers at Madikery, Shimla and Kathmandu, NCD is a depository of all electronic communications going on in the Kingdom.

All Internet Service Providers would send a duplicate parallel of their data traffic to this Signal Intelligence database. Tier I, Tier II and Tier III ISPs have to comply to this mandate. Three massive signal farms at the three NCD locations would process them using an intricate Cloud Computing Architecture with Artificial Intelligence Processing. Redundant processing of the raw data would be conducted at the three data centers independently using in house decryption teams. Geosynchronous satellites would also monitor all communications apart from NRA's own network of communication antennae to capture any data transmission from a non native ISP. Strategic Reconnaissance Agency would be tracking all LEO, MEO satellites traversing Cochin territorial space and their communications would be captured by SRA's ferret satellites, aerostats and Trisanku Space Station. Records of all internet, telephone, mobile phone, VLF, ELF, SW, MW, FM transmissions made in the nation would be captured by the National Communications Database. Any commercial and conventional communications would thus be captured. Any non conventional communications detected would by default be tracked for possible subversion.

The data received at the National Communications Database, being in bitstream would be sifted in a modular process. All routing information would be analysed for network security purposes. All open communications would be analysed for key intelligence target patterns. Secure communications would be decrypted by progressively higher decryption machines and further analysed. Each NDC would consist of 50 BDH150 , 50 PFLOP Super computers in a Cloud Computing Architecture developed by Varma Institute of Fundamental Research and an Artificial Intelligence Protocol developed by Rajendra Varma Advanced Research Laboratory. Urgent data would be immediately be sent to CBI and NIA. Every bit of data received at the NDC are stored in vast subterranean databanks. Databanks that are full are relegated to reserve status in an ever expanding database as every data is considered non erasible for future intelligence applications. The data would continue to be accessible under the Cloud Computing database however through the interface of a mirror which would screen users from direct access to data without necessary clearances.

The National Data Centers have been in operation for several years now and the operations have been streamlined in such a way that the Kingdom of Cochin is one of the most information secure nations in the world.