National Cybersecurity Strategy is in its final stage in India and ready to be cleared as the increasing cyber-attacks and threats from nation-state actors against India.
Highlights:
India has been working on the National Cybersecurity Strategy for the last two years in the cabinet for final approval.
National Cyber Security Strategy 2020 was selected to improve cyber awareness and cybersecurity using stringent audits.
Under the policy, empanelled cyber auditors will carefully look at the security features of companies.
The table-top cyber crisis management exercises will be conducted to reinforce the idea that cyber-attacks can happen regularly.
India has led to avoid any significant cyber-attacks or threats. As a result, in Global Cybersecurity Index 2021, India has jumped from 47 to 10.
As the policy is executed, the country will confront the challenge of addressing cyber-skilling.
As per the report, there will be around 1.5 million job vacancies in cybersecurity in India by 2025.