Indian Computer Emergency Response Team

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Agency overview
Formed 19 January 2004 (2004-01-19)[1][2]
Headquarters New Delhi, India[3]
28°35′11″N 77°14′22″E / 28.58639°N 77.23944°E / 28.58639; 77.23944Coordinates: 28°35′11″N 77°14′22″E / 28.58639°N 77.23944°E / 28.58639; 77.23944
Motto Handling Computer Security Incidents
Agency executive
  • Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director General[4]
Website cert-in.org.in

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) is the Government organisation under Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.[3] It is a nodal agency that deals with cyber security threats like hacking and phishing. It strengthens security-related defence of the Indian Internet domain. In March 2014, CERT reported a critical flaw in Android Jelly bean's VPN implementation.[5]

In December 2013, CERT reported there was a rise in the cyber attacks on Government organisations like banking and finance, oil and gas and emergency services. It issued a list of security guidelines to all critical departments.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "techtarget.in". Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "first.org- About CERT-in". Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  3. 1 2 "deity.gov.in -- ICERT". Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "DeitY.gov.in- Personal in ICERT". Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Android's Jelly Bean, Kit Kat under cyber threat in India: CERT-In". NDTV (New Delhi, India). 2 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "As cyber attacks rise, government sounds alert". The Hindu (New Delhi, India). 26 December 2013.


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