Algo Rhythm: Cybersecurity spending up 10-fold since 2014-15, shows data

Actual spending on cybersecurity has always remained lower than budgeted estimates

The central government will for the first time in 2021-22 outspend its budgeted estimates on cyber security in the last eight years. In its recent Budget, the government announced that it would spend Rs 515 crore on cyber security in 2022-23, of which Rs 215 crore would go to CERT-In, the nodal agency that deals with cyber security threats. Compared to 2014-15, this is an increase of nearly 10 times.

But it also represents a reduction from Rs 552.3 crore spent on cybersecurity, as per the revised estimates of 2021-22, while the government had budgeted to spend Rs 416 crore.