New Delhi: To counter the honey trap issue in the Indian Military, a new application has been launched to counter the efforts to get sensitive information related to India’s defense mechanism. There have been various reports in the past under which officials of Indian armed forces were honey-trapped and sensitive issues leaked out of them.
To counter this, the Indian Army has launched the MShield 2.0 app. This app will be exclusively for the Indian defense forces and cannot be downloaded from the Play Store app. As per officials, there had not been a single case of honey trap since this app was launched.
The app will help in maintaining cyber hygiene
Speaking to TV9 Network, Indian Army officer Captain Shivani Tiwari said, “ There are several apps that are banned in the country so that no sensitive information is leaked by our defense personnel knowingly or unknowingly. As a commander, how will I know whether my troops have maintained cyber hygiene if they are deployed in far-off places? It is because of this that this app has been developed.”
Over 14,000 users of the app so far
She added, “ We have over 14,000 users as of now. As soon as the troops generate reports from the app in their mobiles, the commander will be able to find whether they have installed any banned app on their phone or not. No personal detail of any user is collected. Only the verification of the app name is done. The app also helps to find out whether any user received any PIO call. If any report is found steps are taken accordingly. Information are gathered on what questions they were asked so that other troops can also be alerted.”
