ALIVE TO THE THREAT
The Indian Govern ment seems to have finally woken up to the threat of cyber terrorism, and is putting together a fullfledged Crisis Management Plan for countering cyber attacks like the recent one on Indian embassies.
Having identified critical sectors that could be vulnerable to cyber attacks, the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology has issued security guidelines to all ministries and government departments asking them to set up 24x7 cyber control rooms, implement information security best practices, deploy information security experts, formulate their own information security policies and ensure background checks of all personnel employed in IT divisions. Henceforth, the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) headed by the Cabinet Secretary will also be monitoring all national-level cyber crises.
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