New Delhi: Aiming to build the capacities of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials, across all government departments, the Ministry of Information Technology organized a cyber training program, ‘Cyber Surakshit Bharat‘.
The initiative has been conceptualized with the mission to spread awareness about cyber-crime and build capacities of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials, across all government departments, for ensuring adequate safety measures to combat the growing menace, and for organizations to defend their digital infrastructures and become future-ready in tackling cyber-attacks.
Operating on the principles of awareness, education, and enablement, the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), under its capacity-building scheme, organized the 30th CISO Deep-Dive Training program from August 22-26.
Held at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi, the intensive 5-day training program was designed for designated CISOs from Central and State/UT Governments, subordinate agencies/PSUs, including public sector banks and insurance companies, technical wings of police and security forces, CTOs and members of technical/PMU teams; as well as officers responded to observe the security of IT systems in their respective organizations.
The Deep-Dive Training is specifically aimed at educating and enabling CISOs to understand cyber-attacks comprehensively and thoroughly, get the necessary exposure to the latest technologies of safeguard, and translate the benefits of a resilient e-infrastructure to individual organizations and citizens at large.
The training also focused on providing a holistic view of legal provisions, enabling CISOs to formulate policies in the domain of cyber security and build concrete cyber crisis management plans.
Launched in 2018, the CISO training is the first-of-its-kind of partnership between the government and industry consortium under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. Since June 2018, these programs have capacitated 1,224 senior officials to secure the digital infrastructure and systems of their respective organizations.
