Past Cyber Security Initiatives

National Information Security Assurance Programme (NISAP)

This is for government and critical infrastructures. Key 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. The Key features of this forum 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).
• On-going 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 Research & Development group works on the hard problems of cyber security, cyber forensics and anti-spasm research.
• It has chalked the way for intensifying bilateral cooperation to control cybercrime - between the two countries.

Digital Sky Platform

The Digital Sky Platform is a unique unmanned traffic management (UTM) system which will facilitate the registration and licensing of drones and operators in addition to giving instant (online) clearances to operators for every flight.

• The Digital Sky Platform implements the “No Permission, No Takeoff” (NPNT) clause. This implies that any drone without a digital permit to fly will simply not be able to take off, thereby preventing unauthorized flights.
• The Digital Sky Platform operates as a traffic regulator in the drone airspace and coordinates with the defence and civilian air traffic controllers (ATCs) to ensure that drones remain on the approved flight paths.
• Drone users are required to do a one-time registration of their drones(Unique Identification Number), pilots and owners
• For every flight (except for the Nano category), users will have to ask permission to fly on a mobile app and an automated process permits or denies the request instantly.