Lok Sabha Question No. 1403 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-19
Subject: Increase in Cyber Crime
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: KRISHN PRATAP SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1403

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 19.12.2018

## INCREASE IN CYBER CRIME

## 1403. DR. KRISHAN PRATAP:

Will the Minister of Electronics & Information Technology be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether  it  is  a  fact  that  one  cyber  crime  takes  place  in  every  10  seconds  in  the country, if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether as per cyber experts a strong infrastructure is being put in place to give prior information of cyber crimes and to check planning/execution of such crimes ; and
- (c) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (c):   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.

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-the-art  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).
- (vii) Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  (MHA)  has  launched  a  portal  www.cybercrime.gov.in  for public to report complaints of child pornography and sexually abusive explicit content.

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