Strategy 2020 Details of the Areas Part 1: Secure Large scale digitization of public services: Digitization efforts of India get global recognition due to innovative thinking, architectural experimentations, and the potential of scale. If security is not embedded in their design, well-thought-through in the deployment, and ensured in their operations, it would impact assured availability of services, and citizens trust in digital platforms and online services. • Ensuring thinking of security in the early stages of design all digitization initiatives undertaken in the country • Calling for empowered security roles and responsibilities in such projects and initiatives • Promoting the culture of security authorization/clearances while deploying the solutions • Developing institutional capability for assessment, evaluation, certification, and rating of the core devices used by the projects • Advocating extensive assessment of devices, solutions, and architectures suggested, adopted, and implemented by such projects • Mandating an advanced level of cybersecurity operations matching the scale and complexity of security challenges Ensuring timely reporting of vulnerabilities and incidents in the devices and solutions adopted by the projects Supply chain security: Rapid digitization of industry, including critical sectors, social spaces, and personal transactions on the one hand and country's aggressive efforts for Make-in-India on the other, demand a two-pronged approach for supply chain security. One, for procurement and deployment of products manufactured in the increasingly complex global supply chain. Second, for products developed or value-added in India. • Continuous monitoring and mapping of the supply chain of the ICT and electronics products, ranking them for their criticality and evaluating country's contribution in them • A close watch on technical capabilities developed in India and the role they are playing in the global supply chain. A systematic plan for enhancing India's role in the key supply chains by investing in critical technical capabilities • Scale up India’s product testing and certification efforts in a time-bound mission mode way by dedicating desired resources and creating conducive investment and private sector participation in the area A NASSCOM® Initiative