CERT-IN safeguarding the country’s IT security fabric
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN)
Head of the organization
Sanjay Bahl
(Director General)
Website
https://www.cert-in.org.in/
CERT-In was formed with an aim to secure the Indian cyber space. It has been designated under the Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 to serve in the area of cyber security as the national agency to perform - Collecting, analysing and disseminating information on cyber incidents; Forecasting and alerting of cyber security incidents; issuing emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents; Coordination of cyber incident response activities and Issuing guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents.
CERT-In has also signed several MoUs with the ministries in about seven countries - Korea, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Uzbekistan, which encourages the participating companies to exchange technical information on cyber-attacks, response to cyber security incidents and find solutions to counter the cyber-attacks. The MoUs will also help to strengthen cyber space of signing countries, capacity building and improving relationship between them.
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