The government has issued draft of the proposed National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP) which proposes to identify the most dangerous classes of cyber security threats to the nation, critical IT infrastructure vulnerabilities and the cyber security problems. The government has said that the findings would be used to develop and implement a coordinated R&D effort focused on the key research needs.

The draft policy also underlined the need for indigenous development of IT products essential for curbing threats from imported high-tech products. The NSCP draft said: “Indigenous research and development is an essential component of national information security measures due to various reasons – a major one being export restrictions on sophisticated products by advanced countries.”

The draft has even identified proprietary technologies at risk and asked for promotion of products that are based on open standard in the country.

The Department of Information Technology (DIT) is the nodal agency for the NCS policy and it has invited comments on the draft policy by May 15.