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  Chandigarh's cyber security to be modelled on UK module

CHANDIGARH: The websites of Chandigarh Housing Board and estate office were hacked recently despite UT having a full-fledged IT department. To rule out such instances from happening that deprive citizens from getting timely information, the cyber security model being followed in the UK will be replicated in the city. Also, to maintain continuity in the bureaucracy, all communications and notes made by an officer during his tenure in the city will be compiled to make a database ,which would come in handy for his successor, according to the policy .

Chandigarh will have its own Information Security State Policy to tackle cyber crimes and it will be drafted by October. The policy is being drafted by Cyber Security Research Centre of Panjab Engineering College (PEC) and IT department of the UT administration.For making the policy world class, cyber experts of PEC are studying the modules of UK, besides states like Delhi and Maharashtra.

Dr Sanjeev Sofat, HoD of computer science and engineering, PEC, said, "The process of drafting the information security policy has already been initiated and we are going through the UK module besides some states for making it world class. A common data server and a data control center will be the main features of the policy."

Divya Bansal, a teacher at PEC said, "The policy will be such that it can be easily implemented. It will not be so complicated that officials find it hard to understand. Besides it would be made keeping future problems in mind."

There have been instances where some websites of the administration, including Sampada have been hacked and the IT department of UT had not been able to stop it from happening.

There will be a centralized database of websites of different wings of Chandigarh administration according to the policy. Muttukrishnan, Reader, City University, London, also described the features of the information security policy module in UK.

The assistance of Chandigarh police is also being taken for drafting and framing the information security policy.