Gulshan Rai, the Director General of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), has been appointed as India’s first Cyber Security Chief by the Government of India. Gulshan Rai heads the eSecurity and Cyber Law division in the Ministry of Communications and IT. He has been involved in various capacities regarding cyber security for more than two decades. He is also expected to lead the National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) that the government is setting up with a budget of one thousand crore rupees.

Tidbits

1. The National Association of Software and Services Companies has been requesting the Indian government for the creation of such a position for more than 3 years.
2. As per the data, more than 700 government websites that are hosted under ‘gov.in’ and ‘nic.in’ domains have been hacked by cyber criminals since 2012.
3. The Government of India has unveiled the National Cyber Security Policy in 2013 to protect the public and private infrastructure from cyber threats.
4. The venue for Cyber Threat World Summit 2015 is Mumbai and the summit will be on May 15’2015.