Most Union government offices likely to go fully digital
- January 1, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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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