What we know about National Cyber Coordination Centre from IT Committee report
March 15, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the implementation of the union government’s cybersecurity project, the National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC), leading the government to revise down funds required by half in financial year 2020-21.
For FY2020-21, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) revised down funds from Rs 170 crore (Budget Estimate) to Rs 80 crore (Revised Estimate) under the head Cyber Security Projects (NCCC & Others). Note that from the budget documents, it appears that CERT-in, NCCC, and the broader cyber security projects by the union government receive budgets under two heads: “Cybersecurity (NCCC & CERT-in)” and “Cyber Security Projects (NCCC & Others)”. The latter allotment is made under PM Narendra Modi’s flagship Digital India scheme.
different government agencies and different department working together to be effective on a particular project then you are going to see things shift. if the white house is not telegraphing and changes like this are a top major red alert priority, there is a good chance those changes won t necessarily be abandoned but will just get deprioritized and won t get the attention the people working on these issues think they deserve. we are talking about secretary kirsten neilson, is chris kreb who s the director of the cyber security projects, is he getting briefed regularly? is he asking questions or sending down directives or responding to concerns that the people working on these projects need? this is not necessarily reflective of the white house saying stop worrying about security. election security being displaced by concerns that the