New cyber security policy next month; to focus on ID theft, fraud

INDIA’S NEW cyber security policy — which is likely to redefine various aspects of identity theft and financial fraud, and ways to prevent them — is in the final stages of deliberations and all set to be launched next month, senior government officials told The Indian Express.

The new policy has been in the works for more than a year, and will be a “revised and improved” version of the policy of 2013, officials said.

“The 2013 rules were more along the lines of guidelines rather than a policy. It just defines the various challenges that were before us then, rather than definitive dos and don’ts or what is a crime and what is not. The new policy will make all those aspects clear,” a government official said.