About Quad Cyber Challenge:
- Under the challenge, QUAD has invited Internet users across the Indo-Pacific and beyond to become part of the challenge and practice “safe and responsible cyber habits.
- The challenge provides resources, including basic cybersecurity information and training for all users, from corporations to educational institutions, small businesses and individuals.
- The action in India is being coordinated by the office of the National Cyber Coordinator with the National Security Council Secretariat.
What is QUAD?
- The Quad, officially the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is a group of four countries: the United States, Australia, India, and Japan.
- One of the primary objectives of the Quad is to work for a free, open, prosperous and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.
- The group met for the first time in 2007 on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- It is considered an alliance of maritime democracies, and the forum is maintained by meetings, semi-regular summits, information exchanges and military drills of all the member countries.
Q1) What is the National Security Council (NSC) of India?
NSC is a three-tiered organisation that oversees political, economic, energy and security issues of strategic concern. It operates within the executive office of the prime minister of India
Source: Quad partners launch Cyber Challenge to advance cybersecurity across nations
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