An IT superpower, India has just 556 cyber security experts

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/an-it-superpower-india-has-just-556-cyber-security-experts/article4827644.ece

By SANDEEP JOSHI
The Hindu
June 19, 2013

The world may acknowledge India as an information technology superpower, but 
its very own official cyber security workforce comprises a mere 556 experts 
deployed in various government agencies. How “grossly inadequate” is India’s 
cyber security manpower can be gauged by the fact that China has 1.25 lakh 
experts, the U.S. 91,080 and Russia 7,300. “The existing combined strength of 
cyber security experts in all organisations in the government domain is 556, 
which is grossly inadequate to handle cyber security activities in a meaningful 
and effective manner,” says a secret note prepared by the National Security 
Council Secretariat (NSCS), which is engaged in creating an elaborate ‘cyber 
security architecture’.

Waking up from a deep slumber, the government has decided to recruit 4,446 
experts to be deployed in six organisations that would take care of India’s 
cyber security infrastructure.

These are the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITy), 
which includes Indian- Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and the 
National Informatics Centre (NIC); the Department of Telecom (DoT); the 
National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO); the Ministry of Defence; the 
Intelligence Bureau (IB); and the Defence Research and Development Organisation 
(DRDO).

Of the 4,446 posts, the armed forces will get a majority of the experts 
(1,887), followed by NTRO (695), DEITy (590), IB (565), DoT (459) and DRDO 
(250). The experts will take care of traffic scanning and mitigation, system 
audit and forensics, assurance and certification, research and development, and 
coordination.

An internal study conducted by the NSCS revealed that all major countries have 
established mechanism and organisations dedicated to cyber security, a field 
where India has fared poorly.

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