Associate Fellow, IDSA, Dr Cherian Samuel’s blog titled, ‘On Cybersecurity, India Begins to Embrace the Private Sector’, was published in Council on Foreign Relation on October 18, 2012.
Monday, October 15 saw the release of the Government of India’s Recommendations of the Joint Working Group on Cyber Security. The Joint Working Group was created in July 2012 and included representatives from various ministries as well as the private sector, namely the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, The National Association of Software and Services Companies, the Data Security Council of India and the Confederation of Indian Industry. The entire exercise was coordinated by the National Security Council Secretariat.