Professional certification Archives

Software Product Certification For e-Governance Initiative

First of its kind in India, the Union ministry of communications and IT has decided to set up a certification facility for software security products,in Kolkata, according to BJ Srinath, senior director of the ministry’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In). It would be an important initiative for state governments and various government institutions as it will create security zones for the various e-governance applications, thereby curbing cyber crimes in e-governance.

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Red Hat receives top government security rating

Red Hat has received best security certification by the government funded National Information Assurance Partnership’s (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme for IT Security program, which evaluates the security of commercial technology products.

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Egyptian students take IT route with mobile IT clubs

Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, in association with the Cisco Networking Academy

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NIIT Technologies, Thailand certified BS 15000

NIIT Technologies Thailand has been recently accredited with certification of BS15000 certification.

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Proposal for joint certification of e-governance products

The Minister for IT and Communications of India, Mr Dayanidhi Maran said at a national seminar on e-governance in municipalities that a shortcoming of the Indian IT industry was its failure to come up with world-class products. According priority to e-governance plan for improving service delivery to citizens and businesses, he has proposed enabling certification of products in e-governance domain, jointly with the Ministry of Urban Development.

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