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Govt to carry out Aadhaar authentication of prisoners, their visitors

In a communication to all state governments and union territory administrations, the Union Home Ministry has conveyed that the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and ePrisons team have prepared a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) document for Aadhaar linking or Aadhaar authentication of prison inmates and their visitors with ePrisons platform for the convenience of all prison authorities.

Govt aims to tap private players for IT support as personnel shortage hits NIC

Over the past few years, the government body has been reeling under a host of issues including dearth of personnel, with over 1,000 people expected to retire in the coming years

MeitY plans migrating from NIC to secure cloud solution for government email services

The ministry is looking for a master system integrator who can take 'complete ownership' of migrating the email solutions to a cloud system that can be scaled and can handle up to 50 lakh users.

Inside NIC: How the MeitY department maintains govt IT infra despite budget, personnel crunch

NIC has slid from being a monopoly to becoming a dumping ground of industry-developed government projects. The freedom to innovate too, is dying at the government body.

IT ministry looks to amp up email security for increasing cyber attacks

The government, through the National Informatics Centre (NIC), has floated a request for proposal (RFP) to select a system integrator who can deploy additional support for the email security framework and so on

Govt updates cybersecurity guidelines to boost dept LAN security

This particular version of the guidelines gives a low down of what Chief Information Security Officers of government ministries and departments should do to ensure that local area networks (LAN) of offices are not susceptible to cyber attacks.

Startups to help NIC in securing its 10,000 websites, apps, portals and APIs

While reasoning the need for such security audits, the NIC said that there are possibilities of cyber attack on these websites and applications because of "flaws in the design, development and deployment of application software

China-backed hackers targeted India's NIC among others: Report

RedAlpha, which is allegedly backed by the Chinese government, had spoofed login pages of India’s National Informatics Centre (NIC), which manages wider IT infrastructure and services for the Indian government.

NIC seeks tie-up with private players, says cybersecurity, complying with policies a challenge

National Informatics Centre's expression of interest for empanelling tech partners comes weeks after CERT-In's cybersecurity directions came into force

Bug in mail sent by Bengaluru IT firm deletes sensitive data from 100 govt computers

A Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology official had received the email that contained the bug. The moment the government official had clicked on the attachment in the email, all the data stored in the system had got deleted.

Coronavirus update | You may get a call from ‘1921’ as part of a government survey

The telephonic survey is being conducted by the NIC to “enable proper feedback of the prevalence and distribution of COVID-19 symptoms

Lanura beats cash crunch, becomes first to go cashless in J&K

A village in central Kashmir's Budgam district has become the first village in the state to go 'cashless'.

More PPP, latest technology will help transform NIC: Report

Deeper public-private engagement and training officials on latest technologies can help the National Informatics Centre (NIC) transform its operations to play a bigger role in Digital India initiatives, a report said

E-challan of traffic violators soon; 19 cr vehicles data ready

This app will facilitate a convenient and efficient mechanism to challan errant drivers while providing a set of features and functionalities, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Pon Radhakrishna told Lok Sabha in a written reply.