India aiming to be among top 10 of UN's Cybersecurity Index: Gulshan Rai

India is aiming to be among the top ten nations in the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) of the United Nations from the last years' rank of 23, by working with all the stakeholders in the country, said Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Prime Minister's Office (PMO). "India is at number 23 of the UN Global Cybersecurity Index, it is certainly not a desirable number, but much better than many of the countries. Our target this year is to take it to among the top ten," he said while speaking at the expansion of the Security Operations Centre (SOC) of cyber security firm Symantec, in Chennai."We need to work with all stakeholders, facilitate centres like SOC, encourage the customers to adopt the security best practices. Security has two aspects - the process and the technology, apart from the technology. Everyone has installed technology, if we can improve the processes, we can improve our performance by almost 50-60 per cent. So our focus is on improving the processes, ...

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