Cyber Surakshit Bharat is the initiative of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), which was conceptualised with the mission to spread awareness about cyber-crime and build capacities of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials. Cyber Surakshit Bharat is for all government departments, for ensuring proper safety measures. To combat the growing menace – Organisations need to defend their digital infrastructures and become future ready in dealing with cyber-attacks.
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The five-day intensive training program is designed for designated CISOs from Central and State/UT Governments, subordinate agencies/PSUs, including public sector banks and insurance companies, technical wings of police and security forces, CTOs and members of technical/PMU teams. Also, officers responsible to observe security of IT systems in their respective organisations.
- The deep-dive training specifically aims at educating and enabling CISOs to understand cyber-attacks comprehensively and in depth.
- To get necessary exposure in latest technologies of safeguard.
- To translate the benefits of a resilient e-infrastructure to individual organisations and citizens at large.
- The training also focuses to equip a holistic view of legal provisions.
- It enables CISOs to make policies in the domain of cyber security and build absolute cyber crisis management plans.
What is CISO?
Launched in 2018, the CISO training is the first-of-its-kind of partnership between the Government and industry consortium. This was based on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. Since June 2018 until May 2023, NeGD has effectively conducted 36 batches of CISO deep-dive training program. Over 1,419 CISOs and important IT officials have done this.
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