Strategy 2020 • Incentivizing the efforts and contributions in developing security technologies against the new use cases emerged out of new technologies Part 2: Strengthen Structure, Institutions, and Governance: The challenges of technology transformation, widespread digitization, and advancing threat landscape demand a fresh look at the Governance and Institutional Structures in India factoring the learnings from India and evolving models from across the world. Current Challenges and anticipated future threats call for evolving the institutions for national cybersecurity and governance that is commensurate with the complexities and cyber risks for a country of India’s scale. To orchestrate the country’s cyber strategy and execution roadmap, elevate the function from Coordination to crafting the country’s cyber strategy and planning and directing its execution through identified institutions, both central and state. They key priorities for this central agency could be: • Minimize the headwinds from cyber risks for the USD 1Trillion Digital economy aspirations. • National level initiatives and programs for enhancing preparedness, strengthening defense, and ensuring a swift response • Synergize role and functions of various agencies and restructure them with role and functional responsibility aligned to the national strategy and execution blueprint. • Guiding and Coordinating efforts of the agencies including critical sectors agencies • Assess readiness at National, State and Sectoral Level and structure all efforts to drive outcomes to further country’s cyber preparedness • Securing strategic and critical assets in line with geo political and economic interests and growth agenda of country and make India a role model in a forward leaning cyber defense and response. • Evolve the Cyber Security Innovation Agenda and R&D Strategy for the country, fostering Government-Academia-Industry partnership to achieve outcomes aligned to the strategy. • Enable Policy and Legal Research to address future Technology Developments and impact on Society and Economy and potential cyber risks in truly harnessing next gen technologies for Public good. A NASSCOM® Initiative