Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative

Why is in news? NeGD organises its 34th CISO Deep Dive Training Programme under MeitY’s initiative Cyber Surakshit Bharat

Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) was conceptualised with the mission to spread awareness about cyber-crime and build capacities of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials, across all government departments, for ensuring adequate safety measures to combat the growing menace - Organizations need to defend their digital infrastructures and become future-ready in tackling cyber-attacks.

National e-Governance Division (NeGD), under its Capacity Building scheme, organised the 34th CISO Deep-Dive training programme from January 20-24, 2023.

The deep-dive training specifically aims at educating and enabling CISOs to understand cyber-attacks comprehensively and thoroughly, get necessary exposure in latest technologies of safeguard, and translate the benefits of a resilient e-infrastructure to individual organizations and citizens at large.

The training also focuses on providing a holistic view of legal provisions, enabling CISOs to formulate policies in the domain of cyber security and build concrete cyber crisis management plans.

Cyber Surakshit Bharat:

Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative was conceptualized with the mission to spread awareness about cyber-crime and build capacities of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials, across all government departments.

It was launched in 2018 by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

The CISO training is the first-of-its-kind partnership between the Government and industry consortium under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.

The target participants areOfficers from Central and State/UT Governments and subordinate agencies/PSUs, including public sector Banks and Insurance companies, technical wings of police and security forces: Designated Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), CTOs and Member of Technical/PMU teams, Officers responsible to observe security of the IT systems in their respective organization.

National e-Governance Division, an arm of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, will provide logistic support in arranging the training programmes, whereas the industry consortium will provide technical support for the training.

The training partners from the industry are Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Palo Alto Networks, E&Y, and Dell-EMC. NIC, CERT-In, and CDAC are knowledge partners from the Government side.

Objectives:

It aimed at educating and enabling CISOs to understand cyber-attacks comprehensively and thoroughly, get necessary exposure in latest technologies of safeguard, and translate the benefits of a resilient e-infrastructure to individual organizations and citizens at large.

Create awareness on the emerging landscape of cyber threats.

Provide in-depth understanding of related solutions.

Applicable frameworks, guidelines & policies related to cyber security.

Share best practices to learn from success & failures.

Provide key inputs to take informed decisions on Cyber Security related issues in their respective functional area.