Network Security — Tech Evolutions

Entry	Year	Description	Impact
IT Amendment 2008	2008	The Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, enacted as Act 10 of 2009, inserted section 70B into the Information Technology Act, 2000 through section 36. It gave CERT-In a statutory incident-response role covering collection and analysis of incident information, alerts, emergency measures, coordination and security advisories. Section 70B(6) supplies power to call for information and issue directions. These provisions explain the institutional response to network incidents; the Act’s title year and enactment number differ.	A compromised network requires detection, containment and coordinated response as well as an eventual criminal investigation. The amendment supplies a legal basis for the incident-response function, rather than making a security advisory proof of guilt. In an exam answer, identify who coordinates the response and who holds the relevant information. The 2008 text does not itself specify the later reporting deadlines; do not infer a deadline or today’s penalty from this historical amendment.