NEW DELHI: The Centre is implementing an ambitious program for mobile privacy and security which would alert citizens to the vulnerabilities present in their mobile phones and applications installed on it, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Lt. General (Retd.) Rajesh Pant said.
“We are also implementing a project called ICAPS. That is the Indian Citizen Assistance for Mobile Privacy and Security. It is a project where the objective is to build an integrated server system, which can collate all the mobile security-related information and provide customized and actionable knowledge to individual Indian citizens to secure their mobile devices and data on those devices,” Pant said at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2021.
The new system would verify the handset model and the applications installed on it, and send a message to alert about vulnerabilities if any while the relevant information would be provided to citizens in their native language, or the language that they understand.
The solution should not only inform but also answer questions in a manner that users can understand, Pant said, adding that…
