In their meetings with security officials as part of the process to identify trusted sources for telecom equipment, telcos urged the government to ensure an adequate number of vendors to keep costs in check, while also seeking clarifications around maintenance, upgrade and repair of already installed equipment.
Indian Govt formulating new action plan, Chinese telecom giants Huawei, ZTE could be out of game
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Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE could be potentially out of the game in India with the government set to begin formulating an action plan on the implementation of National Security Directive on Telecommunication Sector on Thursday.
With an aim to protect India s essential national security interests, a committee headed by the Deputy National Security Advisor (Dy NSA) will soon clear all equipment and gadgets, including 5G mobile networks and supply chains.
Top sources in the government told IANS that a meeting of nodal officials of key ministries was called (on January 21) to formulate a strategy to secure India s paramount interest in the field of cyber and telecom security .
Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE could be potentially out of the game in India with the government set to begin formulating an action plan on the implementation of National Security Directive on Telecommunication Sector on Thursday.With .
Hackers tried to open communication channel with us: IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta
In an interaction with Business Today, IndiGo s CEO Ronojoy Dutta says that it s hard to know what kind of data may have been extracted by the hackers, and the airline is in the wait-and-watch mode
Manu Kaushik | January 14, 2021 | Updated 19:31 IST
On December 31, the largest domestic carrier IndiGo reported that some of its servers were subject to a hacking incident earlier that month. The airline said that it was able to restore the systems within a short span of time with minimal impact. Though it alerted the stakeholders on New Year s Eve that some segments of data servers were breached, and hence, there is a possibility that some internal documents may get uploaded by the hackers on public websites and platforms.
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