13 June 2013

New cyber security body to rope in ISPs

Indian government is rolling out a new cybersecurity architecture at a time when it turns out that India is among the top five countries whose data has been compromised by the US' NSA surveillance system.

..The new architecture, which was cleared by the Cabinet last month, envisages an interconnected set of organizations in key departments....

...A key aspect of the architecture is that the government will work with ISPs to oversee metadata of Indian users but not mine the data.....

...However, unlike China, India has lagged behind in implementing IPv6 (internet protocol) which is not only more secure but also makes it easier to "hide" certain important information through encryption that is not possible under the current IPv4 in use here....

....The expectation is that the new cybersecurity policy will somehow stop the sniping that happens regularly between Indian cyber entities....

Click here to read more .....

No comments:

Post a Comment