About Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in):
- CERT-In is a functional organisation of the Ministry of Information & Electronics Technology.
- It is the national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents as and when they occur.
- Objective: Securing Indian cyberspace.
- CERT-In has been operational since January 2004.
- Functions:
- Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents;
- Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents;
- Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents;
- Coordination of cyber incident response activities;
- Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents;
