{"id":53069,"date":"2025-06-18T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/?p=53069"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:06:21","slug":"jk-government-organizes-state-level-cybersecurity-and-crisis-management-workshop-at-skicc-srinagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/?p=53069","title":{"rendered":"J&amp;K Government Organizes State-Level Cybersecurity and Crisis Management Workshop at SKICC, Srinagar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"Subtitleh3\">Workshop Focuses on Enhancing Cyber Resilience and Departmental Preparedness Across the Union Territory<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Information Technology Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Government of Jammu &amp; Kashmir, in collaboration with the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, conducted a 2 Day state-level workshop titled \u201cCCMP Workshop and Cybersecurity Exercise\u201d at Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), Srinagar, on 16-06-2025 and 17-06-2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program was aimed at enhancing cyber resilience across departments of the Union Territory by equipping senior officers, including&nbsp;<strong>Administrative Secretaries, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) \/ Information Security Officers (ISOs)<\/strong>, and nodal officers from various government departments, with essential cybersecurity knowledge and hands-on crisis response planning.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-260-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53072\" style=\"width:440px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-260-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-260-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-260-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-260-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-260.png 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The inaugural session was graced by&nbsp;<strong>Shri Satish Sharma<\/strong>, Hon\u2019ble Minister of Information Technology, Government of J&amp;K. He emphasized the critical importance of cybersecurity in the current digital governance landscape and lauded the initiative as a key milestone towards ensuring secure and reliable citizen services delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Piyush Singla, IAS<\/strong>, Secretary to the Government, IT Department, delivered the welcome address and highlighted in the present digital age, robust cybersecurity is not just a technical need \u2014 it\u2019s a pillar of good governance and public trust. He further encouraged the participants to commit to building resilient systems and a cyber-aware workforce to safeguard citizens and institutions. A keynote address was delivered by&nbsp;<strong>Shri Saurabh Bhagat, IAS<\/strong>, Commissioner\/Secretary, FCS&amp;CA, focusing on the evolving cybersecurity ecosystem and the need for proactive and preventive strategies. He further highlighted the importance of inter-departmental cooperation for effective e-governance and encouraged officers to become cyber warriors by enhancing their existing knowledge and skills and participating and conducting more training exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sessions included interactive presentations, policy insights, and hands-on exercises to promote practical understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and institutional preparedness. Participants actively engaged in discussions around cyber threat landscapes and departmental response strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop concluded with a&nbsp;<strong>Valedictory Ceremony<\/strong>&nbsp;featuring a special address by&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Sanjay Bahl<\/strong>, Director General, CERT-In, who congratulated all participants for their active participation and emphasized the need to shift from reactive cybersecurity to proactive cyber resilience, focusing on rapid recovery while maintaining essential operations during cyber crisis. He highlighted the importance of implementing the Cyber Crisis Management Plan (CCMP), regular training, exercises, drills programs and on-boarding organizations to various CERT-In initiatives. The closing remarks were delivered by&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Piyush Singla, IAS<\/strong>, and the vote of thanks was presented by&nbsp;<strong>Ms. Mahima Madan, IAS<\/strong>, CEO, JaKeGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This capacity building initiative aligns with the national mission of&nbsp;<strong>Digital India<\/strong>&nbsp;and addresses the growing need for secure digital infrastructure in light of recent cyber incidents. It also supports the broader goal of creating a digitally empowered administration and improving citizen trust in government IT systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258.png 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workshop Focuses on Enhancing Cyber Resilience and Departmental Preparedness Across the Union Territory The Department of Information Technology Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Government of Jammu &amp; Kashmir, in collaboration with the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, conducted a 2 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[143],"post_format":[],"flags":[],"class_list":["post-53069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53074,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53069\/revisions\/53074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53069"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_format&post=53069"},{"taxonomy":"flags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fflags&post=53069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}