{"id":33332,"date":"2018-10-30T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33332"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:22:54","slug":"govt-sets-up-nic-cert-centre-to-detect-prevent-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-sets-up-nic-cert-centre-to-detect-prevent-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. sets up NIC-CERT centre to detect, prevent cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Economy\/govt-sets-up-nic-cert-centre-to-detect-prevent-cyberattacks\/article21418593.ece\">Govt. sets up NIC-CERT centre to detect, prevent cyberattacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre on Monday unveiled the NIC-CERT centre that would monitor and help in early detection and mitigation of cyber-attacks on government networks<\/p>\n<p><strong>NIC network<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All communications between government departments \u2014 Centre, State and district, as well as interactions between the government and the citizens takes place through NIC\u2019s network<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance of NIC-CERT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NIC-CERT will help in the pursuit of a safe cyberspace by early detection of any attack on India\u2019s systems<\/li>\n<li>Using various tools, the team at NIC-CERT will be able to identify vulnerabilities and possible exploits and the intelligence gathered will give CERT the ability to predict and prevent attacks<\/li>\n<li>It will also alert the concerned parties concerned in case it detects any malicious activity. Any unusual movement on the NIC network, any attacks, intrusions will be detected and cleaned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Team at NIC-CERT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NIC-CERT currently has a team of about 30 cyber-security professionals working in two shifts. This is in addition to the more than 300 people in the cyber-security team who already work at the NIC<\/p>\n<p>NIC-CERT will operate in close co-ordination and collaboration with other sectoral CERTs an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt. sets up NIC-CERT centre to detect, prevent cyberattacks What has happened? The Centre on Monday unveiled the NIC-CERT centre that would monitor and help in early detection and mitigation of cyber-attacks on government networks NIC network All communications between government departments \u2014 Centre, State and district, as well as interactions between the government and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-sets-up-nic-cert-centre-to-detect-prevent-cyberattacks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt. sets up NIC-CERT centre to detect, prevent cyberattacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704739200},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}