Q85. In India, it is legally mandatory for which of the following to report on cyber security incidents?
- Service providers
- Data Centres
- Body corporate
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1 only
b) 1 and 2 only
c) 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
The correct answer is 1, 2 and 3.
- In India, Section 70-B of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (the “IT Act”) empowers the Central Government to appoint the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to report such incidents.
- The Union Government under section 70B of the IT Act, 2000 established and notified rules of CERT-In in 2014.
- According to Rule 12(1)(a), it is mandatory for service providers, intermediaries, data centres and corporate bodies to report cyber security incidences to CERT-In within a reasonable time of occurrence of the incident. Hence, Option 4 is correct.
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