New Delhi: Worried on the dangers that develop from cyberatack and threats to national security, the government is in the process of establishing an integrated national cyber security task unit with a special focus on the risks originating from the telecommunications sector.
This step occurs when the government also completes a list of “trusted sources” to get telecommunications equipment as a telecommunication country as a country to move towards 5G and sophisticated telecommunications and other immersive technology, but with procurement that can be ignored from China and other countries accidentally for Indian security interests.
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“PMO has been told about efforts to explore the possibility of establishing a sub-department for telecommunications cyber security under an integrated national cyber security unit instead of preparing a separate task unit under the telecommunications ministry,” said a source added that the task force is expected to be placed on March next year.
The Telecom Department will develop an internal task group with a set of relevant skills and capabilities needed specifically for the telecommunications sector.
“This sub-task sub task will work together with an integrated national cyber security task force that has been imagined,” said the source, added that 20 officers had been identified to instill into the project.
“There are also plans to add more officers, with a special set of skills, for this team when we move forward,” said the source.
The current cyber threat is handled by an emergency response team of a special Indian or Sert-in computer, which operates under the electronic ministry and it is.
This is a nodal agent to deal with cyber security threats such as hacking and phishing, and strengthen the security related defense of the Indian internet domain.
However, with the increasingly sophisticated cyberattack, the government increasingly feels the need to have a special specialty task force that acts based on input not only from security forces and cyberspace from within the country, but also from the input from the same-minded friendly countries “from all over the world.
Speaking at Sydney dialogue recently, PM Narendra Modi also called for democracy to work together in cyberspace to prevent conflict, when he warned that technology and data were “new weapons” at the moment.
India increasingly saw the increase in Cyberattack worrying, both at the level of citizens, and critical installations and important personalities.
While the government has never confirmed, many security experts have blamed cyber attacks and malware from China for massive power outages in Mumbai in October last year.
Recently, recently There are several large hackers, including a personal mode’s personal Twitter account that is compromed fish early this month.
“Cyber ​​attacks, including phishing, many times found the route through the compromised application version distributed through parallel stores or sides loaded through many ways.
This has the potential to carry malware and other trojans, which violate the piracy of users who install them and the application developer ecosystems do not Seeing such problems several times.
Therefore a strong control framework requires hours for internal and external monitoring to protect consumer privacy, “said Amit Relelan, Co-Founder and Director, Mfilterit, Global Fraud Detection & Prevention Company.