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Karnataka State
Blockchain Technology Driving the Next…
Blockchain technology has drawn significant attention from the Government due to the pain areas that it promises to address. Several schemes of the Government require the verification of the documents / facts to ensure the eligibility of the applicant. This is a time consuming process. Although some of the departments use the electronic data available with other agencies to verify the applicants claim electronically, the lack of…
New Delhi State
NIC TAG Awards and Launch Ceremony
NIC TAG group organised State Mobile App and WebApp UI/UX Contests in July 2021. The awards for these contests were presented by the Director-General, NIC Dr. Neeta Verma on 12th October 2021.
New Delhi State
DevSecOps - Producing high quality, secure…
Enterprises across the world are demanding software release at high speed to meet business requirements. when software is developed at such speed, security should not be left behind which can only happen if security is built in to SDLC. Such requirements gave birth to technologies like Agile development, DevOps and DevSecOps.In this paper we describe the DevOps technology that enables Development team and Operation team to…
New Delhi State
Leveraging Big Data & AI-ML for Security…
NIC has been a prominent target for cyber attacks. The sheer volume of government applications, websites, services and databases, hosted and managed by NIC makes it a very lucrative targets for cyber threat actors including nation state actors. NIC has been adopting a layered defense approach for mitigating these attacks, with state-of-the-art technology. As modern technology evolved with much more enhanced attack detection and…
New Delhi State
Preventing Cyber Crisis - Must haves for all…
A secure cyber space is crucial for development of any country in economic, political and social spheres. Increased adoption of digital technologies has redefined the cyber security landscape. Cyber crisis is no more a luxury that any progressive state can afford. A set of baseline requirements are suggested that all organizations must have to prevent cyber crisis.
New Delhi State
Endpoint: The Start Point of Cyber Security -…
Organizations of all types and sizes such as healthcare, finance and defense are at risk from increased volume of organized cybercrime. Being the interface where human beings who are the weakest link in Cyber Security normally interact, these devices are the main targets of malicious actors. Endpoint security has emerged into advanced technology from traditional antivirus solutions for providing faster and comprehensive protection…
New Delhi State
Defense in Depth through Layered Security -…
Incidents of massive data breaches have become common and the cost of breaches have reached record high levels. The increase in frequency and sophistication of cyber-attacks becomes more relevant as Government Organizations and Enterprises are increasingly relying on networked computing architectures to maintain consistency of services. Breaches and downtime leading to network outage can impact profitability of businesses and…
New Delhi State
ModSecurity - Open Source Web Application Firewall
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection, Cross Site Request Forgery, Local File Inclusion, Path Traversal, Session Fixation, etc. and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. ModSecurity excels at virtual patching…
New Delhi State
e-Counselling Services
e-Counselling services developed by NIC are the result of a focussed effort to put the best use of technology for bringing transparency in the admission process of the educational institutions in our country. This has also led to the implementation of a common selection process across universities. The stakeholders can now conveniently participate in the admission process for higher education.
New Delhi State
Integrated Core COVID-19 Management Framework -…
Corona virus pandemic has spread across the world at a fast pace disrupting life in unprecedented ways. Government of India has taken multiple measures like nation-wide lockdown, identification of hotspots/ containment zones, isolating patients and suspects, contact tracing, surveillance besides planning and managing health infrastructure like hospitals, beds, ventilators, quarantine facilities, testing labs etc. For effective…
New Delhi State
COVID-19 e-Pass - A ServicePlus Success Story
The Covid-19 menace was spreading vigorously in the country. On 24th March 2020, honourable Prime Minister of India declared a nationwide lockdown for three weeks. It was part of a preventive measure to tackle the pandemic. Lockdown limited the movement of the entire population of the country, but the fact is that no society can afford a complete standstill. To run the system, to ensure proper governance, a controlled movement was…
New Delhi State
Messaging Services of NIC
During COVID pandemic, SMS service has seen a growth of almost 24% and has played a critical role in communicating with citizens.