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Bharat National Cybersecurity Exercise 2025

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: Bharat National Cybersecurity Exercise 2025 (GS3 · Cyber security, 1 August 2025)

What happened

  • The National Security Council Secretariat and Rashtriya Raksha University held the Bharat National Cybersecurity Exercise 2025 with over 600 participants [PIB].
  • It focused on industrial control systems and AI-driven threats such as adversarial attacks and deepfakes [PIB].

Background

  • A strategic segment tested inter-agency coordination in crisis [PIB].

Why it matters

  • Power grids and plants run on ICS; attacks there have physical effects.

How to use this in Mains

GS-III Cyber security and money laundering

  1. As per PIB (2025-08-01): the National Security Council Secretariat and Rashtriya Raksha University held the Bharat National Cybersecurity Exercise 2025 with over 600 participants.
  2. Power grids and plants run on ICS; attacks there have physical effects.
Quotable data point

The National Security Council Secretariat and Rashtriya Raksha University held the Bharat National Cybersecurity Exercise 2025 with over 600 participants.

PIB: National Cybersecurity Exercise 2025, 1 Aug 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: NSCS, RRU.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

The exercise was organised by NSCS with

Answer (b) & explanation

PIB.

Go deeper

ExplainerCyber Security in India: Types of Threats, Legal Framework, Institutions, Recent Attacks and the Way Forward (UPSC Notes + PYQs)

Official source: PIB: National Cybersecurity Exercise 2025, 1 Aug 2025

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