Telecom Lead India: The
India Government has decided to set up a Pan-India secure network for intra
governmental communications.
The own network is aimed at providing secured communications
which will be less vulnerable to attacks.
basis.
thereafter, it will be scaled up for Pan-India communications, according to
Milind Deora, Minister of State, Communication and Information
Technology.
According to a government website, indigenous R&D is an
essential component of national information security measure due to various
reasons – a major one being export restrictions on sophisticated products by
advanced countries.
Second major reason for undertaking R&D is to build
confidence that an imported IT security product itself does not turn out to be
a veiled security threat. Other benefits include creation of knowledge and
expertise to face new and emerging security challenges, to produce
cost-effective, tailor-made indigenous security solutions and even compete for
export market in information security products and services.
Success in technological innovation is significantly
facilitated by a sound S&T environment. Resources like skilled manpower and
infrastructure created through pre-competitive public funded projects provide
much needed inputs to entrepreneurs to be globally competitive through further
R&D. Private sector is expected to play a key role in meeting needs of
short term R&D leading to commercially viable products. Besides in-house
R&D, this sector may find it attractive to undertake collaborative R&D
with leading research organizations.
The website said public-private partnership is a component
of Cyber Security Strategy. These partnerships can usefully confront
coordination problems. They can significantly enhance information exchange and
cooperation. Public-private engagement will take a variety of forms and will
address awareness, training, technological improvements, vulnerability
remediation, and recovery operations.
