India To Gets Its First Cyber Security Operations Center; Data Centre for Cloud

After demonetization the digital transactions have been increased and hence the cyber security becoming critical in digital transformation of India, Government has identified the need to monitor the incidents and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said government will soon set up a ‘security operations centre‘ to monitor cyber incidents with regard to IT infrastructure and applications hosted by NIC.

Government Security Operations Center

“A government security operations centre will start soon. The issue of cyber security is extremely important,” the Minister said addressing the National Meet on Grassroot Informatics organised by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). Calling the National Informatics Centre (NIC) the “technological bridge” of India and the organization which will “lead the way” for Digital India mission.

NIC which is a technology wing of Government of India will soon connect with the Common Service Centres (CSCs), who have successfully provided training on digital payment systems to over 1.96 crore of rural citizens and 6.15 lakhs of merchants. Government has also created a 14444 helpline to support the literacy about digital transactions and cashless payment.

Technology Up-gradation for NIC

For supporting the various initiatives government is going to enhance the infrastructure of district NIC offices to international standards. As a pilot project, 150 District NIC offices would be upgraded during the period 2017-18, while rest will follow soon. Also government announced proposed new data center for cloud in Bhopal.

He further instructed the ministry to develop a training module for the NIC officials to keep pace with the ever evolving technologies.