Existing Counter Cyber Security Initiatives

National Informatics Centre (NIC)

  • A premier organisation providing network backbone and e-governance support to the Central Government, State Governments, Union Territories, Districts and other Governments bodies.
  • It provides wide range of information and communication technology services including nationwide communication Network for decentralized planning improvement in Government services and wider transparency of national and local governments.

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In)

  • Cert-In is the most important constituent of India’s cyber community.
  • Its mandate states, ‘ensure security of cyber space in the country by enhancing the security communications and information infrastructure, through proactive action and effective collaboration aimed at security incident prevention and response and security assurance’.

National Information Security Assurance Programme (NISAP)

This is for Government and critical infrastructures. Highlights are:

  • Government and critical infrastructures should have a security policy and create a point of contact
  • Mandatory for organizations to implement security control and report any security incident to Cert-In
  • Cert-In to create a panel of auditor for IT security.
  • All organizations to be subject to a third-party audit from this panel once a year
  • Cert-In to be reported about security compliance on periodic basis by the organizations

Indo-US Cyber Security Forum (IUSCSF)

Under this forum (set up in 2001) high-power delegations from both side met and several initiatives were announced. Highlights are:

  • Setting up an India Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (ISAC) for better cooperation in anti-hacking measures
  • Setting up India Anti Bot Alliance to raise awareness about the emerging threats in cyberspace by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
  • Ongoing cooperation between India’s Standardization Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) would be expanded to new areas
  • The R&D group will work on the hard problems of cyber security. Cyber forensics and anti-spasm research
  • Chalked the way for intensifying bilateral cooperation to control cybercrime - between the two countries.

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