The audit will span the entire stack of government information communication technology (ICT) assets, from routers, firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems to servers, virtual machines, cloud deployments, endpoint devices and security operations centres.
“We are happy to intensify the cooperation with India and to conduct cyber exercises here. Globally, there is a rise in cyber attacks and Estonia is also facing attacks from hackers," said Jonatan Vseviov, secretary general, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
When compared to 2021, although CERT-In tackled marginally lesser number of cybersecurity incidents in 2022, data showed that phishing and malware attacks in India increased largely in the previous year
As many as 78 per cent of Indian respondents believe their organisations could better defend against cyber attacks with more resources dedicated to preventive cybersecurity, but seven in 10 (71 per cent) organisations say their IT teams are more concerned with uptime than patching and remediation, the report by Columbia-based cybersecurity company Tenable said.
The first attacks were launched against Israel by Anonymous Sudan less than one hour after the first rockets were fired by Hamas.
The products chosen by India's Grid Controller initially adhere to the Central Electricity Authority's (CEA) "Cyber Security in Power Sector Guidelines, 2021.