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Shri Dayanidhi Maran, Minister for Communications &
Information Technology has emphasized the need for international
cooperation on cyber security. Keeping in view the new
threat of international terrorism, Shri Maran said,
“ We must enlist stronger collaboration and cooperation
and improve information sharing both within nations
and between, for that matter, among nations”.
Shri Maran was delivering inaugural address at the Indo-US
Information Security Summit 2006 here today.
On the occasion , Shri Maran also launched the first
ever National Skills Registry ( NSR) for IT professionals
. NSR is developed by the National Association of Software
and Service Companies ( NASSCOM) in collaboration with
the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) in
an attempt to further strengthen security in the Indian
IT industry. This will be a centralized database of
information about the employees’ professional
and educational background . The NSR has been specially
designed to ensure authenticity of data through independent
verification and biometric identification of individual.
Delivering his inaugural address , Shri Maran said
India shares an important partnership with United States.
Over the past few years India and US Government have
pursued the vision to qualitatively transform India-US
relationship and build a long-term strategic partnership.
Shri Maran further said that we both countries realised
that security for our individual countries and for freedom
throughout the world must rely on collective action.
Elaborating on the various initiatives taken for strengthening
the information security in the country, Shri Maran
said that Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)
has been set up to respond to information security incidents
and provide the public security alerts information.
CERT-In collects information on security events from
industry, academia and other user organizations. The
focus of the CERT-In is to help the critical information
infrastructure in preventing the security breaches.
Shri Maran also stated that Indian IT industry on its
part is spending 5-10% of its IT budget on strengthening
information security in their organizations. The creation
of National Skills Registry today for enrolling all
employees working in the information security area is
one of the vital steps taken by the IT industry in the
country. To facilitate the development of a reliable
and secure e-community, Shri Maran stressed the need
for the efforts from all quarters unitedly.
Shri Maran said the Conference organized by NASSCOM
and information Technology Association of America (ITAA)
will go a long way in strengthening the partnership
between US and India in developing global technology
standards and cooperating to make the world a safer
place for all of us.
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