The Curious Case of Indian Cyber Security

Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash India is home to billion dollar IT industry, numerous e-Governance projects, world’s largest bio metric database and many tech driven services. The single major problem with all these technological projects at national and state levels is the danger of theft and fraud. Government of India (GoI) did realize this and as they do with all services, introduced a policy called National Cyber Security Policy 2013. Well, the story ends with the formation of policy, 2 years after the policy was drafted there is no sign of National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC), and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC). Both these agencies were supposed to take care of national IT infrastructure, mainly falling under GoI. What’s The Problem? Currently, as per my understanding there is only one national level cyber alert team called Indian Computer Emergency Response Team […]

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