Centre for protecting infra info

Central Government has taken steps to spread awareness about cybercrimes, issue of alerts, advisories, capacity building and training of law enforcement personnel, prosecutors and judicial officers, improving cyber forensics facilities to prevent such crimes and to speed up investigation.

This update was given by Minister of State for Home Affairs, G. Kishan Reddy in a written reply to question in the Rajya Sabha on 17 July 2019.

Further, Government has taken several steps to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity incidents, he said.

These include:

(i) Establishment of National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) for protection of critical information infrastructure in the country.

(ii) All organizations providing digital services have been mandated to report cyber security incidents to CERT-In expeditiously.

(iii) Cyber Swachhta Kendra (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) has been launched for providing detection of malicious programmes and free tools to remove such programmes.

(iv) Issue of alerts and advisories regarding cyber threats and counter-measures by CERT-In.

(v) Issue of guidelines for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) regarding their key roles and responsibilities for securing applications and infrastructure and compliance.

(vi) Provision for audit of the government websites and applications prior to their hosting, and thereafter at regular intervals.

(vii) Empanelment of security auditing organisations to support and audit implementation of Information Security Best Practices.

(viii) Formulation of Crisis Management Plan for countering cyber attacks and cyber terrorism.

(ix) Conducting cyber security mock drills and exercises regularly to enable assessment of cyber security posture and preparedness of organizations in Government and critical sectors.

(x) Conducting regular training programmes for network and system administrators and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) of Government and critical sector organisations regarding securing the IT infrastructure and mitigating cyberattacks. fiinews.com