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Cyber Security Architecture for Tamil Nadu (CSA-TN)
Cyber Security Architecture for Tamil Nadu (CSA-TN) has been established to counter cyber-attacks in collaboration with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Chennai.
The three pillars of Information Security Management System (ISMS), namely, People, Process and Technology are strengthened as below:
People
- Departments are assigned with a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)/Information Security Officer (ISO) for the Department employees to reach out to in case of any cyber-related issues/threats. The CISOs/ISOs are given periodical training on Cyber Security awareness.
- On line/Off line trainings on how to secure the assets and report incidents are conducted across Tamil Nadu to educate the department officials.
- Cyber Security Incident Response Team:- A trained pool of experts on Cyber Security, is available for prompt response and recovery in case of any cyber incident.
Process
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cyber security framework is a set of guidelines and best practices to help organizations build and improve their cyber security posture with 5 main functions, namely, identify, protect, detect, respond and recover. CSA-TN is one of the pioneers in implementing NIST framework for State-wide Cyber Security
- The helpdesk team of CSA-TN supports departments with rescue activities in case of defacement/hacking/breach using quicker and reliable channels to detect, respond to and recover from cyber incidents
- The Cyber Crisis Management Plan (CCMP) for cyber resilience defines how an organization should respond to a cyber-incident and mitigate the same. The State’s Cyber Crisis Management Plan (CCMP) document has been reviewed and finalized by CERT-In
Technology
- Management and monitoring of around 1200 IT assets across the State on the SOC platform
- Establishment of Security Operation Centre – Tamil Nadu (SOC-TN) with required infrastructure
- Online training programs for the State officials with customized training modules as per their working domain
- NIST Cyber Security Framework (International Cyber Security standard) is being followed for the Cyber Security activities of CSA-TN and is being audited by STQC, Chennai
- Suspicious IPs found by CSA-TN is reported to the Data Centre Operator .
