Representatives from the Nationwide Vital Info Infrastructure Safety Centre (NCIIPC) underneath the NTRO had been amongst prime officers from a number of organisations who briefed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Residence Affairs on the difficulty of cybersecurity. The panel is chaired by BJP Rajya Sabha member Radha Mohan Das Agarwal. Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi is a member.
The NCIIPC has recognized seven sectors as essential – banking, monetary providers and insurance coverage; energy and power; telecom; transport; strategic and public enterprises; well being and authorities – and works in direction of identification and safety of essential infrastructures inside these sectors. At current 427 data infrastructure of 114 organisations have been declared essential.
The NCIIPC knowledgeable the panel that it has formulated a essential matrix based mostly on which pc sources of organisations inside the essential sectors are collectively assessed by it and the respective organisation.
From 2023, the company conducts an annual safety train, the panel was informed, in line with sources within the know of the deliberations. This yr, it was carried out in April at 4 places – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, with 550 members.
