Official sites to be audited regularly
Official sites to be audited regularly
Realising the danger lurking in cyberspace, the government has decided to plug loopholes within important websites. Stringent guidelines have been issued, making it mandatory for official websites to go for auditing on a regular basis.
Hands on: Minister of State for Information Technology Sachin Pilot.
"State governments and central government will have to get their websites audited and upgrade their firewalls," Minister of state for IT Sachin Pilot told reporters outside Parliament on Monday.He said it would be better not to host a "vulnerable" website if it is not audited by experts.
On the hacking of the CBI website, he said in a "day or two", the logs will explain from where exactly the attack came.
"A self-regulatory mechanism is in place. Now it will be enforced strongly," Pilot said.The minister on Sunday had held a meeting with officials of NIC, CBI and IT department to trace "concrete data" on the origin of the attack.
Exposing India's vulnerabilities in the Information Technology arena, the premier investigative agency, Central Bureau of Investigation, has failed to restart its hacked official website even 48 hours later.
| Web stir |
| The CBI website (https://cbi.nic.in/), which was hacked by Pakistani hackers, remained offline on Monday. The failure is a blot on the credibility of the Indian IT sector, which is considered a leading exporter of 'brainees' to western countries. |
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