03 July 2013

Amid spying saga, India unveils cyber security policy

The government on Tuesday unveiled the National Cyber Security Policy, aimed at protecting the public and private infrastructure from cyber attacks. 
The policy also intends to safeguard "information, such as personal information (of webs users), financial and banking information and sovereign data"......
...."This policy is a framework document and it gives you a broad outline of our vision. The real task or the challenge is the operationalisation of this policy," minister of communications and IT Kapil Sibal said while releasing the document in Delhi.....
.....The policy states it aims to "provide confidence and reasonable assurance to all stakeholders in the country (government, business, industry and general public) and global community, about the safety, resiliency and security of cyber space"......
...Other measures discussed in the policy include training five lakh cyber security professionals in the next five years, focus on the use of open source software for government services and proper validation of IT products and services used by government departments.....

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