Centre plans stronger defences for key data

Centre plans stronger defences for key data

News:

1. The Home Ministry is upgrading policy to secure government date and control access to it.

Important facts:

2. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, recently presided over a meeting to review the evolving cyberthreats, directed that the National Information Security Policy and Guidelines (NISPG) be upgraded and updated for the government sector.

3. In 2013, cybersecurity, was moved to the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) under the Prime Minister’s Office.

4. The critical infrastructure was moved to the National Technical Research Organisation and the non-critical part to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

5. There are issues relating to physical security of a computer as well as network.

6. If more people are accessing data, it requires a wider security network.

7. The new policy would cover issues pertaining to the Official Secretes Act.