With an aim to protect information and build capabilities to prevent cyber attacks, the government today released the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 to safeguard both physical and business assets of the country.

In brief, the National Cyber Security Policy covers the following aspects:

• A vision and mission statement aimed at building a secure and resilience cyber space for citizens, businesses and Government.

• Enabling goals aimed at reducing national vulnerability to cyber attacks, preventing cyber attacks & cyber crimes, minimising response & recover time and effective cyber crime investigation and prosecution.

• Focused actions at the level of Govt., public-private partnership arrangements, cyber security related technology actions, protection of critical information infrastructure and national alerts and advice mechanism, awareness & capacity building and promoting information sharing and cooperation. 

• Enhancing cooperation and coordination between all the stakeholder entities within the country.

• Objectives and strategies in support of the National cyber security vision and mission.

• Framework and initiatives that can be pursued at the Govt. level, sectoral levels as well as in public private partnership mode.

• Facilitating monitoring key trends at the national level such as trends in cyber security compliance, cyber attacks, cyber crime and cyber infrastructure growth. 

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