Critical Information Infrastructure Security Exercise – ‘CII SECEX: 2024’



National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC), a unit of NTRO is the national nodal body for Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) Protection. A part of its mandate is to “Developing or organising training and awareness programs” for Critical Sector Entities (CSEs).

Towards this, NCIIPC is organising the Critical Information Infrastructure Security Exercise,‘CII SECEX: 2024’, a 10 days event during 5 -14 April 2024.

The targeted audience is the officials of notified CIIs as well as officials of other important organisations of Critical Sectors. The seven declared Critical Sectors are: 1) Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) 2) Telecom 3) Power & Energy 4) Transport 5) Health 6) Strategic & Public Enterprises and 7) Government.

Objectives of CII SECEX 2024:

(a) The conduct of this exercise will help to fill the cybersecurity skills gap in the ecosystem required to protect the CIIs. It will help train the operational, middle level and senior management level employees to perform their cyber security roles in a better way.
(b) To strengthen the Cyber security posture of CSEs.
(c) To develop camaraderie and knowledge sharing between employees of various critical sector organisations.
(d) To foster positive competitive spirit among employees of Critical Sector Entities to improve the cyber security preparations of their organisations.

Scope of the Exercise

This National Level Exercise is being conducted in two stages. The first stage is Training cum Operational Exercise and second stage is Strategic Exercise.

The Training cum Operation Exercise will include key operational personnel (Junior & Middle level) from the Critical Sector Entities to participate.

Further, the Senior level officers from the CII Entities would be invited to participate in a two-day strategic policy level exercise who will be provided with various real world scenarios that the top-level management/decision makers from CSEs will encounter and have to take decision to protect their organisation’s Critical Information Infrastructures.

In addition to these, a special half day Strategic Exercise for CEOs from CSEs is also organized where discussions and brainstorming will be held on various teething issues faced by senior most management of CSEs.