India, March 22 -- Due to insufficient workforce, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team's (Cert-In) work in helping entities affected by ransomware incidents is impacted, the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) informed the parliamentary standing committee on communication and IT as per the committee's ninth report on demand for grants tabled in the parliament on Friday.

Meity said that Cert-In is in "urgent" need of additional manpower to deal with increase in cyber security incidents and issues. The organisation also needs dedicated space for its offices, data centre and disaster recovery site.

"CERT-In faces challenges due to insufficient manpower while conducting onsite incident response activities to he...