Article Title: PowerEX-2022
14-10-2022
Defence & Internal Security Prelims Plus
Why is in news? CERT-In and Power-CSIRTs jointly conduct Cyber Security Exercise “PowerEX-2022”
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in collaboration with Power-CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams in Power sector), successfully designed & conducted the Cyber Security Exercise “PowerEX” for 193 invited Power Sector Utilities.
The Objective of the exercise was to “Recognize, Analyse & Respond to Cyber Incident in IT & OT Systems”.
The theme of the exercise was “Defending Cyber induced disruption in IT & OT infrastructure”.
The CERT-In hosted the cybersecurity exercise on its simulation platform.
Around 350+ official from various Power Sector Utilities participated in the event.
Exercise “PowerEX” was successful in meeting its objectives and helped the participants to learn, practice and respond to cyber security incidents.
CERT-In:
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) was established in 2004 under Section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
It comes under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
It is a nodal agency that deals with cybersecurity-related threats such as hacking and phishing.
It provides security to Indian Internet domain.
It is responsible for collecting, analysing and disseminating information related to cyber incidents.
It is also involved in forecasting and warning against cyber threats and taking emergency measures to handle cyber security-related incidents.
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