Govt reinforcing cyber security to deal with emerging threats

A cyber coordination centre is likely be set up in New Delhi by June this year

The government is planning to set up separate cyber security teams for different sectors in the face of emerging cyber threats such as the recent ransomware attack and fringe incidents of leaks of Aadhaar database. A centralised hub to monitor and take on such attacks is also on the agenda.

Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said the government was planning to set up a separate Indian Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT-In) for the financial and power sectors to deal with specific cyber threats. “Cyber security is a vast area. We want to divide it for a more specialised