There is now a new twist in the cyber security issue of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). 19-year-old ethical hacker Nisarga Adhikari has claimed that CBSE has invited her to work with a team of cyber experts from IIT to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in its IT systems.

Nature officer told ABP News that he has been contacted in this regard through both text message and email. According to him, it was written in the message sent to him that after recent discussions, he was being invited to join the cyber security team of IIT as an engineer.

Nothing from the board yet

But this claim has not been confirmed yet. No official statement has been issued by CBSE in this regard. At present this claim has been made only by the Nature Officer. Nisarg Adhikari came into limelight last month when he made public information about security flaws in a portal related to CBSE student data. After this, taking the matter seriously, the help of experts was taken and cyber security experts of IIT were added for investigation and rectification work.

IIT team is doing this work
According to reports, a team of experts from IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur stayed at the CBSE headquarters for about two weeks and reviewed the security arrangements and technical structure of various portals. During this period, many technical changes were made to remove security flaws and make the system more secure.

After these reforms, the CBSE re-evaluation portal was relaunched on June 2. Immediately after the portal was relaunched, large-scale cyber attacks were attempted on it. On June 2, approximately 13 lakh login attempts were recorded within just two minutes. At the same time, on June 3, this number reached more than 30 lakhs.

Technical experts believe that these attacks may fall in the category of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, the purpose of which is to disrupt services by creating excessive pressure on the server. However, IIT experts say that due to the new load management system and security improvements, the portal continued to function normally despite these heavy traffic and attacks and no major damage was reported.

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Help to CBSE team

CBSE’s in-house developer team was continuously working on the system, but it needed adequate technical guidance and expert assistance. For this reason, teams of external experts, especially IIT institutes, were included in the process.

Why was the responsibility handed over?

Earlier, security audit was conducted by the auditors associated with CERT-In, but they were not able to identify some important security flaws. After this, responsibility has been entrusted to IIT experts for detailed technical evaluation.

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Amidst the recent questions raised regarding CBSE’s on-screen marking system and evaluation of 12th board exam, the board has now issued a major update regarding the security system of its On Mark portal. The board has posted on its official According to CBSE, the security vulnerabilities that have been identified have been controlled and other potential vulnerabilities are also being thoroughly investigated.

In fact, recently many discussions came to light regarding the security of On Mark portal. After this, CBSE intensified the monitoring of the matter and deployed a special team of cyber security experts. The board says that for the last few days, experts are continuously reviewing the system and necessary steps are being taken to make the digital platform related to the evaluation process more secure.

Continuous monitoring of on mark portal

CBSE said in its official statement that it is continuously monitoring the security vulnerabilities revealed in the On Mark portal of the service provider. Immediate cognizance has been taken of the shortcomings which have come to public notice and the process of removing them has been initiated. According to the board, to further strengthen the structure, work is also being done to migrate the portal to a more secure technical system.

Weaknesses were controlled

The board says that the security flaws that have been confirmed have been controlled. Besides, the team of experts is also investigating whether there are many other technical weaknesses which can be misused in future. According to CBSE, all aspects related to cyber security are being reviewed to ensure the credibility of the evaluation process and data security.

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Experts from IIT and government agencies are monitoring

CBSE said that not only the technical team of the board, but also cyber security experts associated with different departments of the government and IITs are involved in this work. These experts have been given the responsibility of strengthening the security of the system and preventing possible threats. The board claims that all necessary steps regarding security are being taken expeditiously. Apart from this, CBSE has also thanked the ethical hackers and those citizens who have shared information about the shortcomings of the portal. According to CBSE, technical inputs have also been taken from some people by directly contacting them, which has helped in further improving the security system. The Board says that such information given in a responsible manner plays an important role in strengthening the system.

Board issued mail ID for suggestions and information

Apart from this, CBSE has appealed to the people that if anyone has any important information or suggestion related to the security of On Mark portal, they can contact the security team of the board. For this, the board has also provided the official email ID secy-cbse@nic.in. CBSE says that all such suggestions and information will be seriously reviewed, so that the portal can be made more secure.

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