The government has established National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) to protect critical information infrastructure in the country, as per the provisions of section 70A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000
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Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issues advisories and alerts regarding the latest cyber threats and countermeasures on a regular basis. The organisation has also published guidelines for safe guarding IT infrastructure which are available on its website, he said. Responding to another query, Ravi Shankar Prasad stated as per the data available from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) portal, 115.523 crore Point of Sale (PoS) transactions were made in April-May 2019. The number of PoS transactions stood at 142.321 crore in 2014-15, 255.928 crore (2015-16), 348.643 crore (2016-17), 474.855 crore (2017-18) and 617.687 crore in 2018-19.
With inputs from PTI
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