Introduction to Cyber Security

Indo US Cyber Security Forum (IUSCSF): The India-US Cyber Security Forum was established in 2001 and is dedicated to protecting the critical infrastructure of the knowledge-based economy. The members of the forum are various government and private sector organizations, both from India and the United States, working under the Forum‟s auspices, have identified risks and common concerns in cyber security and crafted an action-oriented work plan on securing networked information systems. The Forum focuses on cyber-security, cyber-forensics and related research and works towards enhancing co-operation among law enforcement agencies on both sides in dealing with cyber crime. Defence services of both the countries will enhance their interaction through exchange of experience in organizational, technological, and procedural aspects. Ongoing co-operation between India‟s STQC and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will expand to new areas including harmonization of standards. CII and their US counterpart have decided to set up an

India Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (ISAC) and India Anti-Bot Alliance („bot‟ refers to software that can be tasked to invade computers and undertake malicious activities remotely on behalf of hackers) (Press Information Bureau, 2006).

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   National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIPC) of India: It is declared as a nodal agency for the protection of critical information infrastructure of India and is responsible for all measures including R&D for protection of critical information infrastructure. Some of the activities that NCIIPC performs are (Chander, 2013):
   
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      Identification of Critical Sub-sectors
      
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      Study of Information Infrastructure of identified critical sub-sectors
      
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      Issue of Daily / Monthly cyber alerts / advisories
      
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      Malware Analysis
      
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      Tracking zombies and Malware spreading IPs
      
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      Cyber Forensics activities
      
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      Research and Development for Smart and Secure Environment.
      
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      Facilitate CII owners in adoption of appropriate policies, standards, best practices for protection of CII.
      
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      Annual CISO Conference for Critical Sectors.
      
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       Awareness and training
       
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       24X7 operation and helpdesk
       
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