Amid cyber risks, no data storage on cloud services; action if leakage: DoT to staff

With incidents of cyber attacks on government’s official email ids and websites on the rise, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued fresh instructions to its employees asking them not to store any official and classified information on private cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, and others.

If any such information is stored on these private cloud services, the employee storing such data may be liable for penal action in case of a data breach, the DoT said in a communication to all its staff.

Further, any kind of classified work must be “strictly be carried out only in a standalone computer which is not connected to internet”, the DoT said.