Introduction
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued
a direction on 28 April 2022 (Direction) under Section 70-B(6) of
the Information Technology Act 2000 (IT Act) relating to
information security practices, procedure, prevention, response and
reporting of cyber incidents for safe and trusted internet. This is
an ongoing effort on the part of CERT-In to further strengthen
cyber incident reporting, internet security and allied topics.
CERT-In had earlier issued Advisory CIAD-2021-0004 dated 20
January 2021 (Advisory), which inter alia required
affected entities to immediately notify users/customers who could
be affected with details of information breached, actions being
undertaken by such affected entities to address the problem and how
they can reach out to CERT-In for any queries.
