India to come with clear cybersecurity strategy policy in Jan 2020

India to unveil the cybersecurity strategy policy in the coming January next year to announce India a “cyber-secure the nation”, which will also help in achieving the target to achieve a USD 5-trillion economy, an official said on Wednesday. “India’s cybersecurity strategy policy will be released in January 2020 and will enable the government to cyber-secure the nation. The government’s vision of a USD 5-trillion economy will be helped to a great extent by this effort,” said Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator on cyber Policies, at an event.

In Box: India's cybersecurity strategy policy will be released in January 2020 and will enable the government to cyber-secure the nation.

The most important requirement for internet safety is increased effective coordination between ministries that are overseeing various aspects of cybersecurity, proper critical infrastructure protection and public-private partnership, said Pant.

He further said, the critical information infrastructure does not only lie with the government, so that partnership with private sector becomes essential. On the requirement of huge budget to successfully implement cybersecurity at all levels, Ajeet Bajpai, director general of the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre, said even a small country like Israel has allocated USD 20 million as the annual budget for cybersecurity.

“Considering the size and scale of our nation, we need approximately Rs 25,000 crore budget for the same. The biggest question is where this money will come from? Also, there is a need to emphasise on the need to make cybersecurity mandatory as a subject at the university level for high-decibel awareness,” said Bajpai .