Shri Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology informed Lok Sabha today in a written reply to a question that virus is a ‘malacious code’ computer software programme. With the innovation of technology ‘malicious code’ are getting highly sophisticated and complex. Due to proliferation of Information Technology (IT) in all areas worldwide, there is rise in the virus attacks and malicious activities. With the rise in the number of computers and increase in the broadband connections the same trends are observed in India as well.
The reply further stated that the government has circulated Computer Security Guidelines and Cyber Security Policy to all the Ministries/Department on taking steps to prevent, detect and mitigate cyber attacks. National Informatics Centre (NIC) managing government websites and providing e-mail services is implementing these guidelines and policy to secure the government IT infrastructure from the cyber attacks.
