Microsoft To Set Up Cybersecurity Center In Delhi
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Microsoft is setting up a cybersecurity center in New Delhi to arm governments and private agencies with all-round intelligence on cyber attacks within the country. The center, probably will be at Connaught Place in close proximity to most government establishments, would target the spread of malware by monitoring the Internet traffic flowing through the country, Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman at Microsoft India, said in a ET report. “Security is becoming a big conversation topic, especially when are talking about the cloud,” he added. The center is expected to be Microsoft’s biggest such setup at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, it would be inaugurated sometime in October or November. Globally Microsoft has seven such centers which have partnerships with international law enforcement agencies such as Interpol and Europol to fight cybercrime. The canaught place center will be an extended version of a small Gurgaon office which was launched of-lately June this year. The center will provide necessary details about malware and attacks to the government on which they can take precautionary measures and actions, Pramanik said. Earlier during Satya Nadella third visit in India he said “Microsoft is building technology around digital and virtual reality and how the tech major can help the country in its ‘Digital India’ initiative. ”While in Delhi, Nadella also met telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha “We shared this idea with the government departments and they are all very excited about it,” he said, adding that the idea to base the center in central Delhi was to ensure that top officials from government departments in close vicinity can “see it for themselves.”
The centre, which is likely to be in Connaught Place in close proximity to most government establishments, would target the spread of malware by monitoring the Internet traffic flowing through the country, Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman at Microsoft India, said. NEW DELHI: American technology giant Microsoft is setting up a cybersecurity centre in the heart of New Delhi to arm governments and private agencies with all-round intelligence on cyber attacks within the country. The centre, which is likely to be in Connaught Place in close proximity to most government establishments, would target the spread of malware by monitoring the Internet traffic flowing through the country, Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman at Microsoft India, said. "Security is becoming a big conversation topic, especially when are talking about the cloud," he told ET in an interview. To be modelled on Microsoft's biggest such setup at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, it would be inaugurated sometime in October or November. Microsoft has seven such centres globally that have partnerships with international law enforcement agencies such as Interpol and Europol to fight cybercrime. The centre will be an expanded version of a small one launched in June this year in the company's Gurgaon office. While the centre will be a completely Microsoft set up, it will give the necessary details about malware and attacks to the government on which they can take precautionary measures and actions, Pramanik said. "We shared this idea with the government departments and they are all very excited about it," he said, adding that the idea to base the centre in central Delhi was to ensure that top officials from government departments in close vicinity can "see it for themselves." The launch of the centre comes on the heels of a discussion between PM Narendra Modi and Microsoft's global chief Satya Nadella during his last visit to India.