The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
(“CERT-In“) is the national agency for
incident response for cyber security and has been established under
Section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000
(“IT Act“). Its functions include the
collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber
incidents, providing and implementing emergency measures for
handling any cyber security incidents, coordinating cyber incident
response activities, and issuing guidelines, advisories,
vulnerability notes and white papers with information relating to
security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting
of cyber incidents. It is further empowered, under Section 70B (6)
of the IT Act, to call for information and give directions to
service providers, intermediaries, data centres, body corporate and
any other person for carrying out the abovementioned
activities.
