National Cyber Security Strategy 2020:
A National Cyber Security Strategy 2020 is being formulated by the Office of National Cyber Security Coordinator at the National Security Council Secretariat.
- Cyber Security is protecting cyberspace including critical information infrastructure from attack, damage, misuse, and economic espionage.
- The National Security Council (NSC) of India is a three-tiered organization that oversees political, economic, energy, and security issues of strategic concern.
National Cyber Security Strategy 2020:
- Aim: To improve cyber awareness and cybersecurity through more stringent audits.
- Impanelled cyber auditors will look more carefully at the security features of organizations than are legally necessary now.
- There will be table-top cyber crisis management exercises regularly to reinforce the idea that cyberattacks can take place regularly.
- It does call for an index of cyber preparedness and attendant monitoring of performance.
- A separate budget for cybersecurity is suggested, as also to synergize the role and functions of various agencies with the requisite domain knowledge.
