Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Public comments requested

This is an opportunity for information security practitioners to participate in policy formulation.

National Cyber Security Policy - India

Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications & IT, has prepared a draft discussion document on ‘National Cyber Security Policy’. The discussion document is prepared for public consultation in order to facilitate creation of secure computing environment and enable adequate trust and confidence in electronic transactions and also to guide stake holders’ actions for protection of cyber space.

The document has been posted on DIT web site for seeking public comments and can be downloaded from here.

Comments/feedback on this document should reach by 15th May 2011 to CERT-In, on email id ‘grai at mit.gov.in’

NIST document SP 800-53

NIST is updating the most widely refered document, SP 800-53 and this is your chance provide any inputs on this very important document. Many of the state, federal and country specific regulations refer this document or modify the document along with this.

The Revision 3 is available from the NIST web site here.
You can send your comments to NIST by emailing them at sec-cert at nist.gov by April 29, 2011.

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