Lok Sabha Question No. 1321 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-25
Subject: Increase in Cyber Crime
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: NISHIKANT  DUBEY, RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1321

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 25.07.2018

## INCREASE IN CYBER CRIME

## 1321.   SHRI NISHIKANT DUBEY: SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY:

Will  the  Minister  of  ELECTRONICS  AND  INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether cases of cyber crime are increasing every passing year;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, year-wise for the last three years;
- (c) whether the present IT laws are adequate to deal with the growing cyber crimes/attacks; and
- (d) if not, the measures to be taken by the Government to ensure safety and security of software programmes and cyber network in the country

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR   ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI S.S. AHLUWALIA)

(a) and  (b):  As  per  the  data  maintained  by  National  Crime  Records  Bureau  (NCRB), Ministry  of  Home  Affairs,    a  total  of  9622,  11592  and  12317  cyber  crime  cases  were registered during the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively. This includes cases registered under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 and related sections of Indian Penal Code and Special & Local Laws involving computer as medium/ target. Data for year 2017 is still under compilation by NCRB.

(c)  and  (d):  The  Information  Technology  Act  2000  has  provisions  to  deal  with  prevalent cyber  crimes.  Government  has  taken  a  number  of  legal,  technical  and  administrative measures to prevent cyber crimes.  These inter alia , include:

- (i) Government has established National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre  (NCIIPC)  as  per  the  provisions  of  Section  70A  of  the  Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 for protection of critical information infrastructure in the country.
- (ii) The  Indian  Computer  Emergency  Response  Team  (CERT-In)  issues  alerts  and advisories  regarding  latest  cyber  threats  and  countermeasures  on  regular  basis. CERT-In has published guidelines for securing IT infrastructure, which is available on its website (www.cert-in.org.in).
- (iii) Government has set up National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) to generate necessary situational awareness of existing and potential cyber security threats and enable timely information sharing for proactive, preventive and protective actions by individual entities.
- (iv) Government  has  launched  the  Cyber  Swachhta  Kendra  (Botnet  Cleaning  and Malware  Analysis  Centre). The  centre is providing detection of malicious programs and free tools to remove the same for banks as well as common users.
- (v) National  Information  Centre  (NIC),  which  provides  IT  /  E-Governance  related services  to  Government  departments,  protects  the  cyber  resources  from  possible compromises  through  a  layered  security  approach  in  the  form  of  practices, procedures and technologies that are put in place. NIC has deployed state-of-theart  security  solutions  including  firewalls,  intrusion  prevention systems, anti-virus solution. Additionally, periodic security audits of resources are performed followed by subsequent hardenings. These are complemented by round-the -clock monitoring of security events and remedial measures are carried out for solving the problems subsequently.
- (vi) Government  has  established  security  and  safety  test  labs  under  Standardisation Testing  and  Quality  Certification  (STQC)  Directorate.  Three  major  labs  are functioning at  Delhi,  Kolkata  and  Bengaluru for  security  assessment  of  software (including computer programmes).

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