[ISN] India to green light on state-sponsored cyber attacks

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/11/india_state_sponsored_attacks/

By Phil Muncaster
The Register
11th June 2012

The Indian government is stepping up its cyber security capabilities 
with plans to protect critical national infrastructure from a 
Stuxnet-like attack and to authorise two agencies to carry out 
state-sponsored attacks if necessary.

Sources told the Times of India that the government’s National Security 
Council, headed by prime minister Manmohan Singh, is currently 
finalising plans which would give the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) 
and National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) the power to carry 
out unspecified offensive operations.

India is also hoping to co-ordinate its defensive capabilities better, 
in the event of an attack which could debilitate its critical 
infrastructure.

The country was reportedly hit by Stuxnet, although it doesn’t appear to 
have caused any serious damage and was unlikely to have been a 
deliberately targeted attack.

With this in mind, the NTRO is likely to be called on to create a 
24-hour National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre 
(NCIPC) to monitor threats, while sector-specific Computer Emergency 
Response Teams (CERTs) will also be recommended, the report said.

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