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India aiming to be among top 10 of UN's Cybersecurity Index: Gulshan Rai

India is aiming to be among the top ten nations in the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) of the United Nations from the last years' rank of 23, by working with all the stakeholders in the country, said Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Prime Minister's Office (PMO). "India is at number 23 of the UN Global Cybersecurity Index, it is certainly not a desirable number, but much better than many of the countries. Our target this year is to take it to among the top ten," he said while speaking at the expansion of the Security Operations Centre (SOC) of cyber security firm Symantec, in Chennai."We need to work with all stakeholders, facilitate centres like SOC, encourage the customers to adopt the security best practices. Security has two aspects - the process and the technology, apart from the technology. Everyone has installed technology, if we can improve the processes, we can improve our performance by almost 50-60 per cent. So our focus is on improving the processes, ...

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Microsoft is very particular about trust, privacy and security, says Anant Maheshwari

Cyber security 101: Run a website? Here's how to protect it from hacking

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53,000 cybersecurity incidents observed during 2017: Ravi Shankar Prasad

CERT-In issues alerts and advisories regarding latest cyber threats/vulnerabilities and counter measures to protect computers on regular basis, says IT minister

Indian firms slow on cybersecurity; might gain from EU's upcoming GDPR

Indian firms are struggling to understand the policies

Under threat: Cybersecurity start-ups fall on harder times

Many in the crowded market are struggling to live up to their early promise, and in some cases, the security products they developed have been overtaken by advances in cyber hacking

India needs local tools for cybersecurity

Creation of indigenous tools, niche workforce imperative to secure cyberspace: Experts

Government gets security details from 12 smartphone firms

As many as 12 smartphone companies including Xiaomi, HTC, Vevo, Lenovo among others have provided details about their security architecture to the government whereas others such as Apple, Samsung, Sony etc have sought more time to furnish their responses. The government is likely to extend the deadline, which ended today.The government had sought details from over 30 smartphone manufacturers regarding the security practices and architecture they follow while making and selling devices in India, in a bid to strengthen and secure cyberspace and digital infrastructure. As per official sources, HTC, Xiaomi, Comio, Vivo, Lenovo, HMD, mtech, Intex, One Plus, Huawei, Honor, Infocus have submitted the responses whereas Sony, Apple, Samsung and Oppo Mobiles have sought more time to respond.The government will take a call about companies which have neither responded nor sought time for extension. The government is concerned about data security as most of the Chinese firms making smartphones in .

Notice to 9 more smartphone makers over data security details

The move is implemented to strengthen and secure cyberspace, digital infrastructure in the country

Australia to push global tech giants to decrypt suspicious messages

Weakening end-to-end encryption may leave communications vulnerable to hackers

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