Railways marching ahead on mission transformation: Prabhu

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New Delhi : Railways Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu on July 21, 2017, inaugurated Round Table Conference on “Ensuring Cyber Security on Indian Railways”. Chairman, Railway Board, A K Mital and other Railway Board Members and senior officials were also present on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion, Prabhu said that Indian Railways is striding ahead on its mission of transformation. A lot of upgradation, modernisation and maintenance of Railways has been taken up in last three years and  these processes involve use of technologies. Indian Railways has recently launched Rail Cloud Server, Rail Saarthi App, work for developing ERP is also underway, he said. With the exhaustive use of technologies, there are high chances of vulnerability. Indian Railways keeps conducting audits to ensure safety checks. Cyber Security is one of the top priorities, he added.  

 During the discussions, ideas were exchanged on Cyber threats, Security incidents and Advanced solutions. The discussions helped in understanding the issues involved and create better awareness among all stakeholders. It also helped to provide effective solutions to deal with the Cyber Security threats to IT Systems on Indian Railways. Computerisation on Indian Railways started about 3 decades ago and major activities like Ticketing, Freight operations, Train operations and Asset management now rely heavily on IT Systems, according to a PIB release.  Cyber Security on Indian Railway has now been identified as the focus area.  Auditing of IT Systems by Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) and close coordination with CERT-In are some of the steps taken by Indian railways.