Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)
16.05.2024
Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)
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For Prelims: About Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Components of I4C, Other Initiatives |
Why in the news?
The I4C, in collaboration with Microsoft, has blocked more than 1,000 Skype IDs involved in blackmail, extortion and “digital arrests” by cybercriminals posing as police and law enforcement authorities.
About Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C):
- It has been established under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to deal with cybercrime in the country in a coordinated and comprehensive manner.
- Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre was approved on 05th October 2018.
- It focuses on tackling issues related to cybercrime for citizens, including improving coordination between various Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and stakeholders. The center is located in New Delhi.
- It brings together academia, industry, public and government in the prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of cybercrimes.
- It has envisaged the Cyber Crime Volunteers Program to bring together citizens with passion to serve the nation on a single platform and contribute in the fight against cybercrime in the country.
- The I4C coordinates activities related to combating cybercrime in the country and the Home Ministry is closely working with other Ministries, the RBI, and other organizations to counter these frauds.
- The I4C is also providing inputs and technical support to States for identifying and investigating the cases.
- The I4C is also facilitating blocking of SIM cards, mobile devices, and mule accounts used by such fraudsters.
Components of I4C:
- National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit (TAU): For reporting threats pertaining to cybercrimes at regular intervals.
- National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP): To report various cybercrime complaints by citizens at all India levels on a common platform on a 24x7 basis from “anywhere, anytime”.
- National Cybercrime Training Centre (NCTC): To impart training to government officials, especially state law enforcement agencies.
- National Cybercrime Research and Innovation Centre: To carry out research for the development of indigenous tools for the prevention of cybercrimes.
- Platform for Joint Cyber Crime Coordination Team: For coordination, sharing of modus operandi of cybercrimes, data/information among states/UTs LEAs.
- Cybercrime Ecosystem Management Unit: For creating mass awareness in cyber hygiene for prevention of cybercrimes.
- National Cybercrime Forensic Laboratory (Investigation) Ecosystem: For helping LEAs in cyber forensics investigation.
Other Initiatives:
- Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System: For immediate reporting of financial cyber frauds and preventing the siphoning of funds by cyber criminals on a near-real-time basis.
- National Toll- free Helpline number ‘1930’ has been operationalized to provide citizen assistance in lodging online cyber complaints.
- CyberDost handles various social media platforms to generate cyber awareness among citizens.
Source: The Hindu
Q :- Consider the following statements:
Statement-I
Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) has been established under the Ministry of Science and Technology to act as a nodal point in the fight against cybercrime in the country.
Statement-II
I4C brings together academia, industry, public and government in the prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of cybercrimes.
Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?
A.Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct, and Statement-II is the correct explanation for Statement-I.
B.Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct, and Statement-II is not the correct explanation for Statement-I.
C.Statement-I is correct, but Statement-II is incorrect.
D.Statement-I is incorrect, but Statement-II is correct.
Answer D