India ranks 3rd in terms of the highest number of
internet users in the world after USA and China, the number is
projected to grow 6-fold between 2012-2017 with a compound annual
growth rate of 44%. India also secures a spot amongst the top
10 spam-sending countries in the world alongside USA
·India has a huge shortage of cyber security specialists, the
number of trained manpower only accounts to 556 compared to 1.25 Lakh
in China and 91,080 in USA
· 2,876 cyber crime cases were registered under the IT Act
last year , this number rose by 61% compared to 1,791 cases
registered in 2011. The state of Maharashtra recorded the most number
of cases
· In April 2013, the Union government rolled out a central
monitoring system (CMS) which will enable it to monitor all phone and
internet communication in the country
Cyber crime has been affecting individuals as well as
organizations in the country and the world over. There have been
several instances of systems getting hacked in both private and
public sectors which calls for an urgent need to contain this crime
and secure the country from it. In view of the same, the Government
of India came up with two initiatives in the month of July 2013 to
counter cyber crime:
Releasing the National Cyber Security Policy of India (NCSP)
followed by the release of guidelines by the National Critical
Information Infrastructure Protection Centre of the National
Technical Research Organization (NTRO), the country’s elite
technical intelligence agency. One of the key agenda’s of the
National Cyber Security Policy of India is to create a taskforce of
5,00,000 cyber security professionals in the next five years. Public
and private sector partnership(PPP) is also seen as a key step
to counter cyber crime, the mutual co-ordination will bring
about the following improvisations:
· Conduct
Consultation Workshops
· Share cyber
intelligence
· Fund research
programmes
· Develop
capacity building and training centres
· Collaboration
during cyber attacks
It is an utmost need for enterprises, SMEs and the government
bodies to not only adopt the various guidelines and advisories issued
by the security agencies but also to regularly review the
implementation of the same. There needs to be a timely review of the
IT act to keep pace with the developments and sophistications in
cyber crime. Apart from consulting private sectors and cyber security
equipment manufactures , international coordination is also something
that India needs to consider in the days to come to counter cyber
attacks more effectively and efficiently. The implementation of all
these aspects together will be a challenge that needs to be
dealt with precision to secure the critical infrastructure of the
country.
Please let us know if you want to speak to Mr Naveen Agarwal,
Partner, KPMG India on the subject matter. We will be happy to
connect you with the spokesperson.
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