Context: National e-Governance Division, under its Capacity Building scheme of MeitY, recently organised the 35th Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) Deep-Dive training programme under the Cyber Surakshit Bharat Initiative.
About Cyber Surakshit Bharat Initiative
- Cyber Surakshit Bharat was launched in 2018 with the mission to spread awareness about cybercrime.
- Initiative of: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- It envisions building capacities of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials, across all government departments to ensure adequate safety measures to combat cyber-security threats.
- The CISO training is the first-of-its-kind partnership between the Government and industry consortium under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
- The training specifically aims at educating and enabling CISOs to understand cyber-attacks comprehensively and get necessary exposure to the latest technologies for safeguarding against attacks.
