CERT-In conducts cyber security exercise with Power-CSIRTs

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in collaboration with Power-CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams in Power sector)  designed and conducted a cyber security exercise ’PowerEX’ for 193 power sector utilities, Ministry of Electronics & IT said in a release.

The objective of the exercise was to “Recognize, Analyse & Respond to Cyber Incident in IT & OT Systems”, it said. The theme of the exercise was defending cyber induced disruption in IT & OT infrastructure and the event was hosted by CERT-In on its exercise simulation platform.

Around 350+ official from various power sector utilities participated in the event.