NEWS
May 19, 2011
WASHINGTON: The United States is having close co-operation with India on a range of issues related to cyber security and the country wants to expand it, a US official has said. "We have had great cooperation with India. We've had many meetings with Indian officials in various different fora, including at the White House level," Christopher Painter, the State Department Co-coordinator for Cyber Issues, told a group of foreign journalists in a media roundtable.
NEWS
May 12, 2011 |
These developments come even as India is in the process of formulating a national cyber security policy that aims to protect its IT networks, gateways and critical communication and information infrastructure. Along with a cyber security coordination centre, India is also in the process of setting up aCentralised Monitoring System (CMS) which can track all communication traffic — wireless and fixed line, satellite, internet, e-mails and voice over internet protocol (VoIP)
NEWS
May 12, 2011
NEW DELHI: Technology giant Microsoft India today supported a public-private partnership (PPP)-based model to generate awareness among people in India about cyber attacks, as more and more people are using social networking sites. "Phishing attack (it uses email or malicious websites to solicit personal information) through social networks increased from a low of 8.3 per cent of all phishing in January to a high of 84.5 per cent in December, 2010," Microsoft said in its Security Intelligence Report, which highlights cyber attacks and the trend of attacks.
NEWS
April 10, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: The government has issued draft of proposed National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP) that identifies indigenous development of IT products essential for curbing threats from imported hi-tech products. "Indigenous research and development is an essential component of national information security measures due to various reasons -- a major one being export restrictions on sophisticated products by advanced countries," the NCSP draft said. "Second major reason for undertaking R&D is to build confidence that an imported IT security product itself does not turn out to be a veiled security threat," it said.
NEWS
February 5, 2011 |
In the whole toing and froing between the government and Research In Motion ( RIM ), the makers of Blackberry , over access to Blackberry's closed user group traffic, what stands out is the government of India's total reliance on RIM's compliance to secure access to the traffic between two handsets that connect via an enterprise server. This is totally pathetic. True, in the case of a company that wants a slice of India's growing market for smartphones, the government might well be able to use browbeating tactics to extract compliance in the long run. But this reflects poorly on the government's technological savviness or preparedness to withstand cyber attacks.
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