India Plans to Unveil its New Cyber Security Strategy This Year

The New National Cyber Security Strategy is the first of its kind in Indian history

The Government of India is planning to unveil a new cyber-security strategy this year. The Union Government has been working on the National Cyber Security Strategy for a long time and the entire world is looking up to how the strategy will evolve.

Lt. Gen Rajesh Pant, the Cybersecurity Strategy Coordinator at an event in the Prime Minister's Office. Gen Rajesh Pant said that this strategy would holistically cover the entire ecosystem of cyberspace in India.

"The vision of this strategy is to ensure safe, secure, resilient, vibrant, and trusted cyberspace," he added.

The new cybersecurity strategy will serve as a guideline to handle every aspect such as governance, national data resources, building indigenous capabilities, and cyber audits. This national cybersecurity strategy will deliver 80-odd outputs. The theme of the Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI) Dialogue was 'Cyber Security in the New Normal'.

"Pandemic has shot up the cybercrimes in India by 500 percent and Indian is one of the top 3 attacked countries in the world as far as cyber-attacks are concerned", said Rajesh Pant.

The cybersecurity law is more significant as India is one of the radars targeted by cybercriminals. Since India does not have a law on cybersecurity, this new national cybersecurity strategy ensures a full-fledged cybersecurity law. There is also a significant amount of threat from the emerging new technologies such as drones and IoT devices. The government has come up with this new national cybersecurity strategy to make sure that cyberspace is safe, secure, and trusted.

The Cyber Security Strategy Policy 2013 is likely to throw more light on the appropriate response mechanisms concerning cybersecurity in government and other sectors. This cyber law is keenly awaited developments in the Indian cyber laws jurisprudence.

Cybercrimes such as phishing, identity theft, and fraud, have massively increased in the past year.  These cybercrimes are difficult to characterize. And so cybercriminals have been taking advantage of the dark web, this new national cybersecurity strategy can help reduce these kinds of cases. Hopefully, 2021 is likely to see the government focusing on more effective ways of trying to fight against cybercrimes.