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E-Governance Standards workshop on "Network and Information Security"
| What | Work |
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| When |
2006-09-25 10:00
to 2006-09-26 17:00 |
| Where | Conference Room 102, SERC, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore |
| Contact Name | 1.Mr. T.M.Rao, Senior Technical Director, NIC, Hyderabad. |
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Keeping in view of the strategic and contemporary importance of standards for e-Governance, the Department of Information Technology has identified the following key areas to begin with:
1. Meta Data and Data Standards for Application Domains
2. Quality and Documentation
3. Localization and Language Technology Standards
4. Technical Standards and E-Governance Architecture
5. E-Governance Standards:Network and Information Security
NIC has been entrusted the responsibility for taking this initiative forward and bringing out the e- Governance standards, compatible with global standards in the above areas. Working Groups in each of the above areas have been constituted.
The Working Group on "Network and Information Security" has been constituted under the Chairmanship of Prof.N.Balakrishnan,IISC Bangalore.The first meeting of the Working Group was held on May 12
The Network and Information security standards need to be put in place for prevention of intrusions, detecting and removing malicious code, managing the organizations security systems, ensuring the service continuity with proper disaster management, data protection with data back up and recovery procedures and many more.
Current Issues:
1. Crisper definition of the Scope.
2. More Authentication Standards.
3. Technology and Media Neutral.
4. Privacy Issues.
5. Encryption Policies
6. Persistence
7. Archival
8. Human Computer Interface (HCI)
9. Potential for Vendor Lock-in.
Expected outcome of the Workshop:
1. Ensuring assured security of the Mission Mode Projects of NEGP and E-Governance Applications.
2. Possible modifications to the existing standards to get the best of breed solution.
3. Operative Security Manual that will facilitate and provide
i. Implementation level prescriptions
ii. Easy Verifications
iii. Mode to compare with the objectives that the project began with.
4. The Manual will be tested and verified on the identified E-Governance applications.
For further information please contact :
1. Mr.T.M.Rao,Senior Technical Director & Member Secretary(Network &Information Security)
2. Ms.Swarna ,SERC, IISC Bangalore ,swarna@serc.iisc.ernet.in
3. Ms.K.Nagaratna,SERC,IISC Bangalore,k.nagarathna@gmail.com
