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Soon, a centre for monitoring cyber threats to govt PCs

The state government is now looking to strengthen its digital security infrastructure, as it moves towards a less-cash economy and digital delivery of government to citizen (G2C) services.

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After two global ransomware attacks, Maharashtra government is moving to ring-fence the cyber security infrastructure for machines on its network.

In May 2016, around 150 computers in the state administrative headquarters of Mantralaya were infected by the 'Locky' ransomware. However, it's systems escaped largely unscathed in this year's Wannacry ransomware attack.

The state government is now looking to strengthen its digital security infrastructure, as it moves towards a less-cash economy and digital delivery of government to citizen (G2C) services.

"We are planning a (cyber security) threat monitoring system to cover machines on the state wide area network (SWAN) and other networks," Vijay Kumar Gautam, Principal Secretary (Information Technology) told DNA. About 75,000 machines are part of the SWAN. The centre will be set up either in Mumbai or Pune by the Maharashtra State IT Corporation.

"There are several hits on the system as computers access websites. The centre will identify doubtful hits based on the source or format. Analytics will be used to identify the pattern and check if there are anomalies or if it is benign. If there is something wrong, action will be taken. We will identify threats and initiate action in advance for prevention. This has become the need of the hour," said Gautam.

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