The Indian Railway Minister, Suresh Prabhu has said that ensuring cyber security of the railway's in the day to day operations is one of the most important priority.
Speaking at a conference attended by senior rail officials, Mr Prabhu said that there has been an exponential increase of the technology in Railway's, over the past three months only the ministry has launched several initiatives like RailCloud Server and Rail Saarthi App and is now working on an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
"We are working on a complete transformation of the railways through an investment of huge amounts of money and transformation of each and every aspect of operations to make them better. We are using high-end technology for maintenance and detecting defects in tracks through one application," said Prabhu
"So if we are doing all this and using the cyber space for digital transactions, obviously, the vulnerability of that transaction becomes very critical.
"When we do everything manually, the challenge is manual error and if we are shifting from manual to technology oriented operations, then the flaws in technology or someone who can potentially hoodwink it is as high and sometimes even dangerous. So cyber security is one of the top priorities," the minister added.
This conference was about the security issues in Indian Railways and was attended by Chairman, Railway Board, A K Mittal and other railway board members and senior officials.
Nearly three decades ago major activities like ticketing, freight operations, train operations and asset management in railways were computerized.
While, they launched RailCloud, a virtual server with an inbuilt security system that will enable faster connectivity at a reduced cost.
Speaking at a conference attended by senior rail officials, Mr Prabhu said that there has been an exponential increase of the technology in Railway's, over the past three months only the ministry has launched several initiatives like RailCloud Server and Rail Saarthi App and is now working on an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
"We are working on a complete transformation of the railways through an investment of huge amounts of money and transformation of each and every aspect of operations to make them better. We are using high-end technology for maintenance and detecting defects in tracks through one application," said Prabhu
"So if we are doing all this and using the cyber space for digital transactions, obviously, the vulnerability of that transaction becomes very critical.
"When we do everything manually, the challenge is manual error and if we are shifting from manual to technology oriented operations, then the flaws in technology or someone who can potentially hoodwink it is as high and sometimes even dangerous. So cyber security is one of the top priorities," the minister added.
This conference was about the security issues in Indian Railways and was attended by Chairman, Railway Board, A K Mittal and other railway board members and senior officials.
Nearly three decades ago major activities like ticketing, freight operations, train operations and asset management in railways were computerized.
While, they launched RailCloud, a virtual server with an inbuilt security system that will enable faster connectivity at a reduced cost.
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