Telangana seeks Israeli help to beef up cyber security

The Telangana government today sought Israel's help to audit its cyber security policy for achieving global standards.
A top official said the government has asked the West Asian country to help devise necessary policy framework for establishing a robust cyber security ecosystem.
"Israel's National Information Security Agency (NISA)'s success in creating a formidable cyber security framework is very impressive.
"Israel's three-staged approach of ensuring robustness and resilience at the institutional level driven ably by an involved leadership at the top is worthy of emulation," Jayesh Ranjan, Telangana Principal Secretary (IT & Industries), said in a statement.
"We seek Israeli expertise in diagnosing our state government cyber policy and provide an audit report on it to help us create a secure ecosystem in Telangana," he said.

Speaking at the inaugural session of a two-day International Cyber Security Conference 2017, Ranjan said the governments Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Hyderabad would start operations before the end of December.

The SOC will be housed at the Sate Data Centre and will focus on protecting critical infrastructure of the government, the statement said.
Shai Moses, Consul for Trade and Economic Affairs, Consulate General of Israel, said India has adequate human capital and with industry-academia collaboration can, like Israel, create abundant talent pool required to achieve global standards in cyber security.
"Israel sees great potential for business partnerships with Indian companies and we welcome the IT players to explore collaboration opportunities with Israel companies," Moses said in the statment.