Cert-In short of staff to help curb ransomware

Due to insufficient workforce, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team's (Cert-In) work in helping entities affected by ransomware incidents is impacted, the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) informed the parliamentary standing committee on communication and IT as per the committee's ninth report on demand for grants tabled in the parliament on Friday.

- Aditi Agrawal

NEW DELHI:

Meity said that Cert-In is in "urgent" need of additional manpower to deal with increase in cyber security issues. The organisation also needs dedicated space for its offices, data centre and disaster recovery site.