India gets ready to roll out cyber snooping agency thehindu/news/national/india-gets-ready-to-roll-out-cyber-snooping-agency/article4798049.ece?homepage=true New Delhi: Indians using the Internet might be worried over the US spy agencies snooping into their accounts and online data, but the government has set the ball rolling for creating its own multi-agency body — National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) — that would carry out “real-time assessment of cyber security threats” and “generate actionable reports/alerts for proactive actions” by law enforcement agencies. Though the govt won’t say that they would be able to look into your Facebook or Twitter accounts as and when required, the fact remains that the setting up of the federal Internet scanning agency will give law enforcement agencies direct access to all Internet accounts, be it your e-mails, blogs or social networking data. “The NCCC will collect, integrate and scan [Internet] traffic data from different gateway routers of major ISPs at a centralised location for analysis, international gateway traffic and domestic traffic will be aggregated separately ... The NCCC will facilitate real-time assessment of cyber security threats in the country and generate actionable reports/alerts for proactive actions by the concerned agencies,” says a secret govt note. All top govt spy and technical agencies will be part of the NCCC that would be set up at a cost of around Rs. 1,000 crore. “The proposed cyber security architecture envisages setting up a National Cyber Coordination Centre [NCCC] which would be a multi-agency body under Department of Electronics and IT,” says the note. Other govt agencies that will play an active role in the NCCC include the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), IB, RAW, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), NTRO, DRDO, DIARA, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Telecommunications. Govt sources said the govt would also involve Internet service providers (ISPs) to ensure round-the-clock monitoring of the Internet, while expertise of other private sector organisations would be utilised when required. Thehindu
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:56:09 +0000
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