Govt restricts foreign firms from conducting IT security audits of critical sectors
By MYBRANDBOOK
The government has ordered the ministries and departments handling India's critical infrastructure to avoid hiring foreign firms to conduct IT security audits of its systems and networks. This is in view of the recent cyber attack on Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. It is also said that Indian firms empanelled for auditing will require clearance from domestic spy agency, Intelligence Bureau (IB) to rule out any foreign links.
Security audits in all the ministries and critical sectors are carried out to ensure that country's information infrastructure is not vulnerable to attacks by hackers and that all the systems have a secure government firewall. Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) — under the purview of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology — has prepared a list of auditing firms in consultation with the IB. In case any government department is planning to hire firms outside of the list, security vetting by the IB has also been made mandatory.
Further it has been observed that critical sectors are facing threats from multiple sources and increasing attacks on the systems are organised and targeted with the help of criminals and State actors to reap immense benefits out of information compromise or espionage. The cyber criminals may carry out fraud, conduct espionage to steal state and military secrets and disrupt critical infrastructures by exploiting the vulnerabilities in any system. Worse yet, hackers can cover their tracks so that they cannot be traced and in a post-attack situation, is extremely difficult to prove whether the cyber criminal is an individual, a gang or a group of State actors.
According to the government documents, the public sector, although increasingly relying on IT, has not fully awakened to the challenges of security. Economic stability depends on uninterrupted operations of banking, finance, critical infrastructure such as power generation and distribution, transport systems of rail, road, air and sea which are critically reliant on information technology. Even though the focus has been on improving systems and providing e-governance services by various institutions, the IT networks and business processes have not placed the desired emphasis on information security.
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