6  BIS central bankers’ speeches  Role of cert-in 37. You are all aware that Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), a part of the Ministry of Communications and Technology, GoI has a major role to play in combating cyber crimes. Its roles and functions include incident response and offering recovery procedures and incident tracing.
As a proactive approach, it also issues security guidelines and acts as a national repository of, and a referral agency for, cyber intrusions. It also analyses the trends and patterns of intrusion activity and, as a response, it aids the users to prevent recurrences of similar incidents. IDRBT has been nominated as the sectoral CERT for banking and financial sector.