Kaspersky further sustains and solidifies association with Indian CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
In a heartening news, Kaspersky, one of the world’s top security software & services providers, and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, continues with its unflinching cooperation in areas of common interest such as fulfillment of the cyber security policies, strengthening protection of India’s cyber space and other relevant initiatives. The Kaspersky and CERT-In collaboration is aimed at helping the agency to understand, identify, and reduce the occurrence of various cyberattacks in the country.
“The CERT-In has observed Cyber Security Awareness Month (October 2021) by organising various activities for the citizens and technical cyber community in India. As part of these activities, CERT-In in collaboration with Kaspersky conducted a simulated interactive training program for addressing the cyber-security skill gap specifically for the financial sector organisations. This training program was aimed towards preparing organisations in detecting and responding to potential cyberattacks targeting the financial sector. An interactive platform which simulates a cyberattack business game helps participants to better understand the nuances regarding Incident Response while gaining knowledge in cyber security as well as to perform effectively as a team,” says Dr. Sanjay Bahl, Director General, CERT-In.
Genie SugeneGan, Head of Government Affairs, APAC, Kaspersky, views, “We’re happy to work with CERT-In and address the growing need for cyber threat intelligence in the country, particularly its banking and financial services sector. As a part of our MoU, we’re proud to offer our interactive protection simulation (KIPS) program to help their stakeholders and constituent organizations in developing kills and capacity to actively counter cyberthreats.”
Cyberattacks on banking and financial institutions and enterprises are evolving continuously. Attackers are targeting financial institutions by using advanced and sophisticated techniques for intruding banking IT infrastructures. In order to give a boost to the cybersecurity skills and escalate the cyber maturity of the banking and financial services sector, Kaspersky in association with CERT-In recently conducted an interactive simulation based training workshop for government, public, private organizations belonging to the financial sector in India as part of the activities during cyber security awareness. Senior level officials and decision makers and managerial level officers from various government, public and private sector organizations in financial sector in India attended the training.
The CERT-In is the national nodal agency designated under Section 70B of Information Technology (IT) Act 2000 (Amendment 2008) for dealing with cybersecurity incident response, detection and mitigation of cyber security incidents, create awareness and develop cyber security capabilities among its stakeholders, issuing of advisories, guidelines and promoting best practices among Indian cyber community.
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