Tag: Union government offices to go digital

Union government offices to go digital The Government has directed all the Union government Ministries and Departments to migrate to e-office 7.0 by February 2023. So far, 74 Ministries and Departments have migrated to e-office version 7.0. At least 13 offices that are yet to migrate to the updated system About e-office 7.0 It is an inhouse system developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). Highly secure system with timely security audits and adequate firewalls. It is used for unclassified files, with two factor authentication and is not available on the Internet but on NICNET (ICT network of NIC). The e-office application will be regularly audited for known vulnerabilities by third party agencies on the panel of CERT-IN Reasons to migrate to e-office 7.0 The half yearly report of the Computer Emergency Response System (CERT- IN) states that there were ransomware incidents in 2022. Recent cyber and ransomware attack on the servers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. Note CERT-IN, the nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents.