Cyber Crisis Management Plan

Subject – Defence and Security

Context – Over 32,000 cyber-attacks on govt bodies; Cyber Crisis Management Plan by govt to counter attacks: MoS IT

Concept –

It aims at countering cyber threats and cyber terrorism.
The purpose of this plan is to establish the strategic framework and guide actions to prepare for, respond to, and begin to coordinate recovery from a cyber incident.
Ministries/Departments of Central Govt., State Govts. and Union Territories to draw-up their own sectoral Cyber Crisis Management Plans in line with the Cyber Crisis Management Plan for Countering Cyber attacks and Cyber Terrorism
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In conducts regular training programmes for network administrators to mitigate cyber attacks.