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Under Section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000, which body is appointed by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to serve as the national agency for incident response in the area of cyber security?

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) is the agency appointed by the Central Government under Section 70B to serve as the national agency for incident response. The nodal agency for protecting Critical Information Infrastructure is separately designated under Section 70A.

  1. AIndian Computer Emergency Response TeamCorrect
  2. BNational nodal agency for Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
  3. CCyber Appellate Tribunal
  4. DController of Certifying Authorities

Explanation

Section 70B(1) requires the Central Government to appoint a Government agency called the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, which serves as the national agency for incident response. The national nodal agency for Critical Information Infrastructure Protection is a different body, designated under Section 70A.

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