The government has ordered security auditing of the entire IT infrastructure of the central and the state governments, in a move to curb the rising cases of cyber crimes against Indian establishments. These incidents have been emanating from the web space of a host of nations, including Pakistan, China, UAE, US, Turkey, Brazil, Bangladesh, Algeria and nations in Europe.

According to data, 21,699 websites were hacked in India in 2011, which grew to 27,605 in 2012 and 28,481 websites in 2013. Further, a total of 9,174 hacking incidents have been reported in 2014. Apart from the hacking incidents, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) reported 13,301 incidents of web security breach in 2011, which grew to 22,060 in 2012, and to 71,780 incidents in 2013. So far in 2014, 62,189 incidents of web security breaches have been reported. These incidents included phishing, scanning, spam, malicious code and website intrusions.

The government has circulated computer security policy and guidelines to all the ministries and departments, regarding steps to be taken to prevent, detect and mitigate cyber crimes. Also, it has circulated crisis-management plans for countering cyber attacks and cyber terrorism. Along with this, the government has also set up sectoral CERTs in the critical areas of defence and finance.

The state governments have been advised to build adequate technical capacity in handling cyber crime, including technical infrastructure, cyber police stations and trained manpower for detection, registration, investigation and prosecution of cyber crimes. The government has also initiated steps on developing cyber forensics tools and training police and judicial officers in these tools so that the digital evidence can be presented in courts.