Ministries, depts to shun pvt email services

Ministries, depts to shun pvt email services

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 05:23 AM IST
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New Delhi : The government has asked all central and state departments and ministries to stop using private email services for official communication and instead use indigenous services provided by NIC, to prevent ‘misuse’ or ‘leakage’ of classified data.

A recent circular, accessed by PTI, issued to all government bodies by the CERT-In under the Union Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has stated that homegrown and India-based email communication systems should be preferred for official work as the servers of private email service providers are based out of India and is prone to ‘misuse’ or ‘leakage’ of classified and proprietary data.

“It has been observed that a number of officials in the ministries/departments in the central and state governments are using the private mail services particularly hosted and operated from outside India for official communications. Such official communications are government and also the public records. It is to mention that data pertaining to such emails and web services is stored by these service providers outside Indian and is fully under their control.

“At the time of any security breach incident or data loss it becomes very difficult to obtain data from those service providers apart from the possibility of leakage of information as they are controlled by the service providers outside the country,” the circular-cum-advisory issued last month said.

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