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Government Security

Govt comes out with cyber security measures

By Anshupriya Jha | 5 August 2011

Emphasising cyber security, the government has ordered that all new government websites and applications will be audited before they are hosted.

The auditing will be done regularly even after hosting. The government has asked National Informatics Centre (NIC) not to host any websites that have not been audited for cyber security.

Other measures to upgrade web security include the implementation of a Crisis Management Plan to counter cyber- attacks and cyber terrorism by all Departments and Ministries of both the Central and the State governments.

The immediate trigger for coming out with such measures was that a total of 117 websites of various government agencies and departments were hacked in a span of a mere six months – January to June this year. This is according to a written reply by Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot to the Lok Sabha.

Affected departments were asked to provide web server logs of defaced websites for analysis. Such analyses identified the type, intensity and nature of attack as well as the loopholes that made these sites vulnerable. They were then asked to take specific measures to prevent any recurrence by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).

CERT-In also issues alerts and advisories pertaining to the latest cyber threats and countermeasures regularly.

Pilot’s reply further said the information on the website of National Investigation Agency (NIA) is temporarily disabled and has not been hacked.

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