Among the challenges of the cyber world, another challenge that has arisen since the advent of social media sites is the rapid spread of false or sensitive news capable of vitiating the environment rapidly. Due to these sensitive news which went viral on social media many times, the danger of deteriorating the communal atmosphere of the country has arisen.
In the year 2004 itself, we had formed a dedicated agency named “Indian Computer Emergency Response Team” (popularly known as IRT-In) to deal with cyber security challenges, which from time to time implementing various measures related to cyber security. One such initiative was taken by this organization by starting the ‘Cyber Swachhta Kendra’ in February 2004. The work of ‘Cyber Swachhata Kendra’ is to provide security solutions for desktop and mobile.
Like other vigilant countries, India also needs more institutional efforts to deal with possible cyber attacks and other disturbances related to them, only then we will be able to reach the benefits of digitization with confidence to the wider masses.