India and Britain have decided to stepup cooperation in cyber security during the Foreign Minister level talks of both the nations. In the previous Foreign Secretary level talks, the issues discussed were nuclear energy and counter-terrorism.

The representatives of both the nations, William Hague, the British Foreign Secretary, and Salman Khurshid, India’s External Affairs Minister, after agreeing on the issues of cooperation on cyber crimes, which included cooperation in defining the ways of tackling the cyber crime, bilaterally issued a joint statement on the issues discussed.

The London Conference on Cyberspace of 2011 was attended at ministerial level from the Indian side and following the results of the conference, both the countries started its first dialogue on cooperation in October 2012. India and Britain upgraded the relationship of strategic partnership in the year 2004 and since then the foreign ministers of both the nations have been working on the areas of common interest in the cyber domain.