Most Union government offices likely to go fully digital

Subject: Science and Technology

Context: Several security measures put in place to avoid any cybersecurity incidents such as recent ransomware attack at AIIMS Delhi.

About e-office:

E-Office is designed and developed by National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITY).
E-Office is a cloud enabled software that can be deployed/hosted in any data centre or in any cloud identified by the organization.
NIC team shall help the organization in setting up of e-Office environment, master data preparation and in initial rollout.
The e-Office aims to support Governance by ushering in more effective and transparent inter and Intra-Government processes. The vision of e-Office is to achieve a simplified, responsive, effective and transparent working of all Government Offices.
The Open Architecture on which e-Office has been built, makes it a reusable framework and a standard reusable product amenable to replication across the Governments, at the Central, State and District levels.
e-office is for unclassified files with two-factor authentication and is not available on the Internet, but on NICNET. It has mandatory features of authentication of documents with digitally signed certificates and e-signatures.
So far, 74 ministries and departments have migrated to e-office version 7.0.

About CERT-In:

It is an organisation of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, with the objective of securing Indian cyberspace.
It is the nodal agency which deals with cybersecurity threats like hacking and phishing.
It collects analyses and disseminates information on cyber incidents, and also issues alert on cybersecurity incidents.
CERT-IN provides Incident Prevention and Response Services as well as Security Quality Management Services.
The Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 designated CERT-In to serve as the national agency to perform the following functions in the area of cyber security:
- Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents.
- Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents
- Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents
- Coordination of cyber incident response activities.
- Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information