India and Central Asian Countries concluded the Strategic Cyber Exercise on Cyber Threat Hunting and Incident Response Management in New Delhi today. The conference was organized by the National Security Council Secretariat, in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre for Central Asian countries including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The Exercise focused on equipping technical teams with advanced skills to combat increasingly sophisticated transnational cyber threats targeting the region’s critical infrastructure. The three-day exercise which began on Wednesday, also successfully integrated intensive technical capacity building with skills for high-level strategic policy decision making and deliberations on future areas of collaboration.
The Heads of Cyber Security agencies from the region also engaged in discussions to explore mechanisms for enduring strategic cyber cooperation. The National Security Council Secretariat said that the exercise marked the successful completion of one of the commitments made by India under the framework of the India-Central Asian Meeting of Secretaries of Security Councils.
