The Indian government amended the licenses of telecommunications service providers to make them “completely and totally responsible” for the security of their networks. The new rules reflect India’s growing concern that communications networks are being misused by terrorists and other enemies of the country. Service providers will now have to engage government-approved, internationally accredited network audit and certification agencies for network forensics, network hardening, a network penetration test and risk assessment. The DOT denied that there was a ban on equipment from any specific country, but Chinese equipment vendors said orders for their equipment had not been cleared from February.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2125549/india-tightens-security-rules-for-telecom.html