J&K: Fearing last scale attacks on government websites and applications, Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday ordered installation of SSL certificate in all government websites and applications.

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The order comes in wake of the a number of attacks on the government website by hackers, which resulting in loss of data in some cases. The biggest case was of the power development department whose servers were hacked by a ransomware last December forcing its shutdown for over 6 months.

Fearing more attacks in wake of the tensions with both Pakistan and China, government has asked all Administrative Secretaries, HODs to direct the concerned in their departments or organizations to take measures for installation, renewal of SSL certificate in their respective websites and applications.

“Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, has issued advisory for installation of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate in all the Government Websites/Applications. The SSL certificate increases the Privacy and Security of a website,” reads a government order.

“Furthermore, a padlock in the address bar in the browser indicates that website is secure and increases trust of citizens on the government websites,” it said, adding, “In compliance to advisory issued by MeitY, GoI all Administrative Secretaries/HOD1s are requested to direct the concerned in their departments/organizations to take measures for installation/renewal of SSL certificate in their respective websites/application.”

The CEO JaKeGA and SIO NIC, the government said, are requested to nominate an officer/official to facilitate all Government Departments/organizations for making the websites/application SSL certificate compliant.