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A senior official in a security agency has said that India may soon have a single authority or agency for running the entire spectrum of defensive cyber operations in the country.
The move comes in the face of India witnessing renewed threat of cyber-attacks and cyber terrorism. For instance, the breach in the network of India’s largest civil nuclear facility, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu in September did not compromise critical systems, but gained access to the plant’s administrative network.
According to the official cited, the government’s plan is to rearrange and reorganize over a dozen agencies engaged in the protection of India’s cyber infrastructure. The idea is to ensure better coordination and functioning. At present, these agencies have their individual control and reporting systems.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the National Security Council Secretariat (NSC), and the National Technical Research Organization (NTRO), and several other departments and agencies have their own cyber units that look at various aspects of cybersecurity.
Then there are specialised units including the Computer Emergency Response Team, India (CERT.IN), National Critical Information Infrastructure, and the National Cyber Coordinator Centre.
MHA has recently launched CyCord (Cyber Cooperation Centre) under the Intelligence Bureau (IB). CyCord is a platform of several agencies and government departments. It plays a defensive role in the cyber world, and focused on hacking and online investigations. The ministry already had the National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit (TAU), the Platform for Joint Cybercrime Investigation Team, the National Cybercrime Forensic Laboratory and the Cybercrime Ecosystem Management Unit.
The reorganisation will however need the assent of the Union Cabinet before being implemented.
Across the world, the command control of defence cyber operations has been put under a well-defined single command and control.
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