<p>The Centre is planning to create a workforce of five lakh cyber security professionals to shield the country’s Information Technology (IT) infrastructure from frequent attacks by hackers.</p>.<p>The government also intends to create a round-the-clock National Critical Information Infrastructure Centre (NCIIPC), which will not only protect the nation's critical information, but also make the infrastructure more resilient to external onslaught.<br /><br />Both plans are part of a new national cyber security policy that was released by Union IT Minister Kapil Sibal here on Tuesday. <br /><br />The 2013 policy has been drafted at a time when the cyberspace is becoming more complex, with manifold increase in networks and devices. <br /><br />The NCIIPC will be instituted in addition to the 24x7 Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) that functions as a nodal agency for all cyber security emergency responses and crisis management. <br /><br />The CERT-In will function as it is. But the policy favours creation of several new CERTs to deal with cyber crisis in specific sectors. <br /><br />All private and public sector organisations are encouraged to designate a senior management member as the chief information security officer, responsible for the cyber security efforts in the organisation. <br /><br />“The policy is a framework document. It gives you a broad outline of what our vision is. The real task or challenge is the operationalisation of this policy,” Sibal said.<br /><br />Though the document refrains from making any specific comment on any country or hacking group, several international studies have traced large-scale hacking attempts to China. The People's Liberation Army is known to have raised a brigade of professional hackers who target critical information networks in other nations.<br /><br />The US is also believed to be behind many international snooping attempts.<br /></p>
<p>The Centre is planning to create a workforce of five lakh cyber security professionals to shield the country’s Information Technology (IT) infrastructure from frequent attacks by hackers.</p>.<p>The government also intends to create a round-the-clock National Critical Information Infrastructure Centre (NCIIPC), which will not only protect the nation's critical information, but also make the infrastructure more resilient to external onslaught.<br /><br />Both plans are part of a new national cyber security policy that was released by Union IT Minister Kapil Sibal here on Tuesday. <br /><br />The 2013 policy has been drafted at a time when the cyberspace is becoming more complex, with manifold increase in networks and devices. <br /><br />The NCIIPC will be instituted in addition to the 24x7 Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) that functions as a nodal agency for all cyber security emergency responses and crisis management. <br /><br />The CERT-In will function as it is. But the policy favours creation of several new CERTs to deal with cyber crisis in specific sectors. <br /><br />All private and public sector organisations are encouraged to designate a senior management member as the chief information security officer, responsible for the cyber security efforts in the organisation. <br /><br />“The policy is a framework document. It gives you a broad outline of what our vision is. The real task or challenge is the operationalisation of this policy,” Sibal said.<br /><br />Though the document refrains from making any specific comment on any country or hacking group, several international studies have traced large-scale hacking attempts to China. The People's Liberation Army is known to have raised a brigade of professional hackers who target critical information networks in other nations.<br /><br />The US is also believed to be behind many international snooping attempts.<br /></p>
