NeGD Organises 39th CISO Deep Dive Training Programme Under MeitY’s initiative Cyber Surakshit Bharat

• Recently, the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), under its Capacity Building scheme, organised the 39th CISO Deep-Dive training programme under MeitY’s initiative Cyber Surakshit Bharat.

The Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative

• It was launched in 2018 by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
• It was conceptualized with the mission to spread awareness about cyber-crime and build capacities of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials, across all government departments.
• The CISO training is the first-of-its-kind partnership between the Government and industry consortium under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.

Target Participants

• Officers from Central and State/UT Governments and subordinate agencies/PSUs
• Designated Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)
• CTOs and Member of Technical/PMU teams
• Officers responsible to observe security of the IT systems in their respective organization.

Training

• NeGD , an arm of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, will provide logistic support in arranging the training programmes.
• The industry consortium will provide technical support for the training.
• The training partners from the industry are Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Palo Alto Networks, E&Y and Dell-EMC.
• NIC, CERT-In, and CDAC are knowledge partners from the Government side.

Prelims Takeaway

• Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative
• National e-Governance Division