What is CSIRT-Power?

About CSIRT-Power:

• It was launched in collaboration with CERT-In and it is in alignment with the National Cyber Security Policy of 2013.
• It will serve as the central agency for responding to cyber incidents and ensuring coordinated responses.
• Objective: The primary objective of CSIRT-Power is to enhance cybersecurity resilience in the Indian power sector through a structured approach. This includes preventing and responding to cybersecurity incidents, ensuring coordinated responses to cyber threats, and collecting, analysing, and sharing information about sector-specific threats.
• CSIRT-Power will also implement measures to raise cybersecurity awareness and improve the sector’s cybersecurity posture while promoting best practices, standard operating procedures, and security policies.
• The facility will provide cybersecurity expertise and assistance to constituent utilities and facilitate cooperation among stakeholders to strengthen cybersecurity efforts.
• It is set up under the Central Electricity Authority.

What is CERT-In?

• It is the national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents as and when they occur.
• It is a functional organisation of the Ministry of Information & Electronics Technology, Government of India, with the objective of securing Indian cyberspace. 
• CERT-In has been operational since January 2004.

Q1: What is the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission?

It is a statutory body established by the Government of India under the provisions of the Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act, 1998. It is the Central Commission for the purposes of the Electricity Act, 2003, which has repealed the ERC Act, 1998.

Source: Shri Manohar Lal inaugurated COMPUTER SECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM – POWER (CSIRT–POWER) facility