In alignment with the Government of India’s vision of strengthening national cyber resilience and securing digital infrastructure, this project proposes the design and deployment of a comprehensive IT Infrastructure Security Posture Strengthening, ISMS Compliance, and Risk-Prioritized Cyber Advisory Suite. The solution is envisioned as a scalable, modular, and standards-aligned platform suitable for adoption across Central Ministries, State Government Departments, PSUs, academic institutions, and other public sector organizations.

With increasing digitization under flagship initiatives such as Digital India and e-Governance, organizations today manage large and heterogeneous IT infrastructures. However, security governance, risk management, and compliance processes remain fragmented and largely manual. Additionally, although vast amounts of threat and vulnerability information are available, the absence of contextual correlation with asset criticality and business impact limits its effectiveness for actionable decision-making.

The proposed suite addresses these challenges through a single integrated platform that enables centralized asset visibility, asset criticality classification, dynamic risk register management, and automated ISMS governance workflows. Computing security health index of organizations endpoints through automated and periodic security assessments. A key differentiator of the platform is its risk-prioritized cyber advisory capability, wherein threats and vulnerabilities are continuously correlated with asset exposure, configuration, and business criticality to derive prioritized, actionable security insights.

The solution supports compliance with ISO/IEC 27001, CERT-In advisories, MeitY guidelines, and other applicable regulatory frameworks. A plugin-based architecture enables computation of a Security Health Index (SHI) for organizational endpoints through agent-based profiling and automated, periodic security assessments against multiple standards. Context-aware and personalized cyber advisories are delivered to relevant asset owners and endpoints, ensuring timely mitigation of the most critical risks while avoiding alert fatigue.

Overall, the platform strengthens cyber resilience, enhances governance maturity, and enables risk-informed security decision-making across organizations.

Use Case 1: State Police Cyber Crime Unit

A State Police Cyber Crime Unit deploys the platform to gain centralized visibility of all cyber infrastructure assets, including investigation systems, forensic workstations, servers, and field endpoints. The solution enables risk-based prioritization of threats and vulnerabilities based on asset criticality and operational impact, supports ISMS-aligned compliance and audit readiness, and delivers personalized, actionable cyber advisories to officers and system owners, thereby strengthening cyber resilience and operational effectiveness while reducing response time to emerging cyber threats.

Use Case 2: Public Sector Undertaking (PSU)

A PSU with geographically distributed offices and legacy infrastructure uses the suite to unify asset management, automate ISMS documentation, and streamline compliance with CERT-In and sectoral guidelines. Periodic automated audits and dashboards enable senior management to monitor security posture and take informed, risk-based decisions.

Use Case 3: Academic / Research Institution

A large academic institution deploys the solution to manage campus-wide IT assets, research systems, and student endpoints. The Security Health Index helps identify weak configurations, while targeted threat intelligence improves cyber hygiene among users without overwhelming them with irrelevant alerts.

Centralized Asset & Risk Management: Provides unified visibility of IT assets, classification by criticality, and dynamic risk register management.

Risk-Prioritized Cyber Advisory: Continuously correlates threats and vulnerabilities with asset exposure and business impact to deliver actionable, prioritized advisories.

Automated Security Health Assessment: Computes a Security Health Index (SHI) for endpoints using agent-based profiling and periodic automated assessments.

Standards & Compliance Alignment: Supports ISO/IEC 27001, CERT-In, MeitY guidelines, and other regulatory frameworks for structured governance.

Modular & Scalable Platform: Plugin-based architecture allows integration with multiple standards, easy expansion, and personalized alerts to relevant stakeholders.

Architecture: Scalable, modular, plugin-based platform supporting agent-based endpoint profiling and automated security assessments.

Data Correlation Engine: Context-aware engine that links vulnerabilities, threat intelligence, and configuration data to asset criticality and business impact.

Automated Workflows: ISMS governance workflows, risk register updates, and compliance checks are automated to reduce manual effort.

Security Health Index (SHI): Multi-standard evaluation framework to compute endpoint security posture, updated periodically.

Reporting & Advisory Delivery: Personalized, context-aware cyber advisories and dashboards for asset owners, management, and compliance teams.

Saket Jha

Scientist ‘D’

Email: saketj[at]cdac[dot]in

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