Worried about the accumulating danger from cyberattacks and threats to national security, the government is in the process of arranging a unified national-level cyber security task force with a particular focus on the dangers arising from the telecom sector move comes at a time when the government is also completing a “trusted sources” list for obtaining telecom gear as the country moves towards 5G and other complicated telecom and immersive technologies, but with bare procurement from China and other countries unfavorable to India’s security interests. The PMO has been notified about the actions to analyze the probability of arranging a sub-department for Telecom Cyber Security under a unified national-level cyber security task force rather than setting up a separate task force under the telecom ministry,” a source asserted, expanding that the task force is anticipated to be in place by March following year. The telecom department will create an internal task force with the applicable skillsets and abilities required precisely for the telecom sector.
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“This sub-task force will work in conjunction with the united national-level cyber security task force that has been envisaged,” the source announced, expanding that 20 officers have already been recognized for getting rooted into the project. “There are also plans to add more officials, with technical skills sets, to this team as we move forward,” the source explained. The recent cyber threats are dealt with by the specialized Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In, which regulates under the Ministry of Electronics and IT. It is the nodal agency to handle cyber security threats like hacking and phishing and enhances the security-related defense of the Indian internet domain. Nevertheless, with the cyberattacks getting extra intricate, the administration has increasingly felt the need to have a specialized unified task force that works on information not only from protection and cyber forces from within the nation but also from inputs from ‘like-minded friendly countries’ from across the nation.
