Bangalore: India is setting up national cyber security architecture to protect critical information infrastructure and other networks, National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon said on Monday.

"The National Security Council has approved the architecture in principle and we are working out the implementation details with the ministries and agencies concerned, which we hope to take to cabinet for approval soon," said Menon, delivering the eighth Raja Ramanna Memorial Lecture at the state-run National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) here.

In this context, Menon said The Ministry Of Communications and Information Technology is in the process of setting a dedicated silicon wafer fabrication (fab) facility to produce advanced version of chips for use in high-tech, sensitive and vital installations such satellites, nuclear power stations, defense establishments involved in the production of weapons, missiles and electronic warfare.

"The fab facility will produce semiconductor chips used in the making of national assets spanning diverse areas such as space, nuclear, military, information networks, security networks and data centers," he said.