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Centre to states: Strengthen cyber security
Context:
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked states to focus on strengthening the cyber security ecosystem to push adoption of digital services in India
What has happened?
- The minister had met IT ministers and secretaries from almost all states during a two-day conference to discuss the roadmap on making India a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025.
- IT Minister has requested every state to continuously monitor the traffic of websites and set up cyber security centres
- Further, it was discussed that there should also be audit from time to time of sensitive centres such as nuclear power stations, financial hubs and IT hubs
- In addition, Mr. Prasad who is also the Law Minister has asked the states to ensure that no one is denied any benefits for not having an Aadhaar card.
