Draft cyber security policy stresses on local IT products

Monday, 11 April 2011, 15:25 IST   |    1 Comments
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New Delhi: The government has issued draft of proposed National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP) that identifies indigenous development of IT products essential for curbing threats from imported hi-tech products. "Indigenous research and development is an essential component of national information security measures due to various reasons -- a major one being export restrictions on sophisticated products by advanced countries," the NCSP draft said. "Second major reason for undertaking R&D is to build confidence that an imported IT security product itself does not turn out to be a veiled security threat," it said. The draft has asked government to identify the most dangerous classes of cyber security threats to the nation, critical IT infrastructure vulnerabilities and the cyber security problems and use these findings to develop and implement a coordinated R&D effort focused on the key research needs.
Source: PTI
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