India’s future is digital. But new cybersecurity rules are getting in the way

The astonishing growth of India’s economy in the 21st century is one of the great success stories of the Internet age. The nation has one of the largest digital subscriber bases and is the fastest growing market in the world, with well over half a billion Internet users. The government’s push towards online public service delivery has catalyzed this rapid digitization, aided by the private sector’s endeavor to make mobile devices and cheap data services available and accessible.

Analysis shows that increasing digitization could enable India’s core Internet sectors to account for up to 10 percent of the country’s GDP by 2025, help farmers cut costs of growing crops by 15 to 20 percent, create great value in key economic sectors such as education, financial services, healthcare and logistics, ease public service delivery and even help streamline India’s fragmented job market.

India’s new cybersecurity directions proposed by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, known as CERT-In, have introduced new requirements that will require VPN, cloud, and other IT services providers to collect customers’ personal information and log their activity, and surrender that information to Indian authorities on demand.

The various compliance mandates also include synchronizing all ICT systems clocks with government mandated clocks and servers. This creates a risk of a single point of failure and vulnerability, and goes against industry best practices for synchronizing to multiple sources of time.

Read the full article here https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/digital-payments-driving-india-towards-cashless-economy/


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