Indian blueprint for cyber security finalised: Pant

On Monday, at an event organized at Persistent Systems Limited, Pune, Lt Gen Pant announced that the first version of the NCRF document has been finalized and it is ready for public release.
The framework will act as a guiding document for the critical sector entities to develop their governance and management systems as well as their architecture framework for both Information Technology and Operational technology systems.

“Presently there is no system to guide organisations, especially in the critical sector, as to what are the best practices for creating Cyber security systems. There have been large scale attacks recently for example on Oil India, a group in Nagpur and an attack on Tata Power. All these critical sector entities.

The Government of India has selected seven sectors as critical sectors – telecom, power and energy, banking and financial services, transportation, strategic enterprises, government enterprises and healthcare.

NCRF has been created to provide these critical sector entities, in particular and others organisations in general, a strategic guidance to help them address their Cyber security concerns in a structured manner,” said Lt Gen Pant, a veteran of the Corps of Signals of the Indian Army and who is now the National Cyber Security Coordinator at the National Security Council Secretariat.

Lt Gen Pant further said, ” I am happy to announce that we have finalised this framework today and it has been approved by the committee.”