About
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) is a
Government organisation under Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology, Government of India. CERT-In has been designated under Section
70B of the Information Technology
Act, 2000 to serve as the national agency to perform the following functions in the area
of cyber security:
- Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber security incidents
- Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents
- Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents
- Coordination of cyber security incident response activities
- Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and white papers relating to
information security practices,
procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents
- Such other functions relating to cyber security as may be prescribed