What is the Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative?

● Nodal Ministry: National e-Governance Division under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in 2018.

● Objective: To spread awareness about cybercrime and building capacity for safety measures for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT staff across all government departments.

● The initiative will be operated on the three principles of Awareness, Education and Enablement.It will include an awareness program on the importance of cybersecurity; a series of workshops on best practices and enablement of the officials with cybersecurity health tool kits to manage and mitigate cyber threats.

● Importance: It is the first of its kind public-private partnership that leverages the expertise of the IT industry in cybersecurity along with MeitY’s organisations such as CDAC, CERT-In, NIC and STQC as the knowledge partners.