Infrastructure for Cyber Security

Indian Computer Emergency Response

Team (CERT-In)

About:

• CERT-In is the national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents as and when they occur.
• It performs following functions:
  • Information collection and dissemination: Information on cyber incidents, issues forecasts and alerts on cyber security incidents.
  • Issues guidelines: On emergency measures, vulnerabilities and best practices and procedures on information security.
  • Coordination: It coordinates cyber incident response activities between other agencies.

Impact:

• Cyber surveillance: It generates data on cyber security incidents including phishing, network scanning and probing, virus or malicious code and website hacking.
• Training to enforcement agencies: CERT-In ....