With the growth of internet, the dependence on computers has increased exponentially. The challenge is to protect critical information infrastructure, like civil aviation sector, Railways‟ passenger reservation system and communication network, port management, companies and organisations in power, oil and natural gas sectors, banking and finance, telecom sector, etc. from cyber attacks. India is ranked fourth among the top 50 countries in terms of the number of cyber crime complaints reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3), preceded only by the US, Canada and the UK based on the 2014 IC3 annual report (The Telegraph, 2015).
Shortage of trained cyber security workforce is of serious concern to India. In comparison to China, US and Russia that have 125000, 91080 and 7300 trained cyber experts respectively; India has merely 556 cyber experts deployed in various government agencies (Joshi, 2013). India is considered an IT superpower that is a major exporter of software and hosts major ITES-based outsourced businesses. Therefore, IT constitutes a major share of Indian economy. Recently, European Union has picked holes in India‟s data security system and suggested that a joint expert group be set up to propose ways on how the country should tighten measures for qualifying as a data secure nation (Sen, 2013). Therefore, India needs look seriously into upgrading its Information Security infrastructure and reframe cyber policies to get data secure status from EU. This is crucial for India to retain high-end outsourced business, which has a potential of increasing from the existing $20 billion to $50 billion.
