Instrumental in Setting up of the First Large Scale Education and Research Network in close Collaboration with the Leading Educational and Research Institutions Dr

Cyber security expert Gulshan Rai will now take charge as special secretary for cyber security as the first cyber security chief under the Prime Ministers Office. Before the current appointment he was heading the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at the Department of electronics and information technology (DeitY). Rai’s appointment comes at a time when cyber security assumes importance in the backdrop of growing network intrusions and hacking attempts on not just businesses but also on the government.