{"id":3166,"date":"2023-02-10T08:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T03:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:13:39","slug":"what-is-the-quad-cyber-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-quad-cyber-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Quad Cyber Challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Quad Cyber Challenge:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the challenge, <strong>QUAD has invited Internet users across the Indo-Pacific<\/strong> and beyond to become part of the challenge and <strong>practice &#8220;safe and responsible cyber habits<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>challenge provides resources<\/strong>, including <strong>basic cybersecurity information<\/strong> and <strong>training for all users<\/strong>, from corporations to educational institutions, small businesses and individuals.<\/li>\n<li>The action <strong>in India is being coordinated by the office of the National Cyber Coordinator with the National Security Council Secretariat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is QUAD?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Quad, officially the <strong>Quadrilateral Security Dialogue<\/strong>, is a <strong>group of four countries: the United States, Australia, India, and Japan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>One of the <strong>primary objectives<\/strong> of the Quad is to work for a <strong>free, open, prosperous and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The group <strong>met for the first time in 2007<\/strong> on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).<\/li>\n<li>It is considered an <strong>alliance of maritime democracies<\/strong>, and the forum is maintained by <strong>meetings, semi-regular summits, information exchanges<\/strong> and military drills of all the member countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the National Security Council (NSC) of India?<\/h3>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/quad-partners-launch-cyber-challenge-to-advance-cybersecurity-across-nations\/articleshow\/97786978.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u00a0Quad partners launch Cyber Challenge to advance cybersecurity across nations\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the challenge, QUAD has invited Internet users across the Indo-Pacific to improve cyber security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}