Why is it in news?

In order to strengthen cyber security practices and awareness among the government departments, the ministry of electronics and IT has launched the Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative in association with the IT industry majors. 

Details

• An aim of the initiative is to spread awareness about cybercrime and building capacity for safety measures for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT staff across all government departments. 
  The founding partners of the consortium are leading IT companies Microsoft, Intel, WIPRO, Redhat and Dimension Data for the initiative which is the first public-private partnership of its kind.
• Organisations such as Cert-In, NIC, NASSCOM and the FIDO Alliance, CISCO and consultancy firms Deloitte and EY are knowledge partners for the Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative.
• There already are CISOs in many institutions including in as many as 60 ministries and departments of the government of India; 230 banks and 45 other financial institutions. 

Conclusion

This scheme signifies a positive collaboration between the government and the Industry in developing solutions for the challenges posed to cybersecurity by each passing day. It will benefit not only the government and corporate, but to the common masses too in the long run.

Source

Economic times