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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 is the body appointed by the Central Government, through a Gazette notification, to act as the national agency for incident response in cyber security under Section 70B of the IT Act, 2000.

  1. AIndian Computer Emergency Response TeamCorrect
  2. BController of Certifying Authorities
  3. CCyber Appellate Tribunal
  4. DData Protection Board of India

Explanation

Section 70B(1) requires the Central Government to appoint an agency of the Government called the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, which under sub-section (4) serves as the national agency for cyber incident functions. The other bodies are not named in Section 70B for this role.

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