After many Indian establishments have been a target of cyber attackers which have been heavily relying on the foreign operating systems and anti-virus products, the government has now set a plan in motion under which it will develop its own software. In fact, the government has already formed a task-force that will execute the plan.

According to a member of the force the formation took place in February and is working on the plan of building indigenous software for the government bodies.

Moreover, the panel is also expected to suggest different ways by which third-party audits can be conducted on the existing software in government offices, till the point of time the software gets operational.

Followed by the cyber attacks by the China-based hackers, the defence ministry raised concerns over use of anti-virus products of foreign vendors and hence the government acted actively by forming a task force to get over with the problem.

A technical head of a US-based network security giant said that it is very much in favour of the government to devise its own software for the operations. The person also added that it will give it the independence of customising it according to its needs.