Gaurav Kumar asked: In the context of growing cyber-attacks worldwide, how well is India prepared to tackle them given the government’s push for a ‘Digital India’?

Munish Sharma replies: The Government of India has rolled out a number of initiatives to secure “Digital India” from cyber threatS. Kalyanaraman Some of the initiatives are over a decade old such as the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In, India’s national nodal agency responsible for dealing with cyber security incidents, established in 2004. A nodal agency, National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC), was established in 2014 to augment the protection of critical information infrastructure in IndiA. Vinod Kumar Vinod Kumar The government subsequently appointed a National Cyber Security Coordinator in 2015. The level of preparedness to deal with cyber-attacks is gradually improvinG. Balachandran Balachandran Plans to establish a National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) are already in place, which will facilitate cyber-crime prevention, investigation and training for law enforcement agencieS. Kalyanaraman Posted on July 10, 2017