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The Governments of the United States and India held the Fifth U.S.-India Cyber Dialogue in New Delhi (September 28, 2016)

September 30, 2016

The U.S.-India Cyber Dialogue reflects our nations' broad engagement and long-standing cooperation on important bilateral and global issues. The Cyber Dialogue is a forum for implementing the Framework for India – US Cyber relationship, in particular exchanging and discussing international cyber policies, comparing national cyber strategies, enhancing our efforts to combat cybercrime, promoting capacity building and R&D, thus promoting cybersecurity and the digital economy.

The U.S.-India Cyber Dialogue deepened bilateral cooperation on a wide range of cyber issues and strengthened the U.S.-India strategic partnership by:
  • Exchanging information on cyber threats and issues of mutual concern, and discussing possible cooperative measures;
  • Promoting bilateral cooperation on law enforcement and cybercrime issues;
  • Creating mechanism for cooperation including setting up of appropriate Sub – Groups.
  • Affirming common objectives in international cyber fora, especially the application of international law to state behavior in cyberspace, the affirmation of norms of responsible state behavior, and the development of practical confidence-building measures.
  • Confirming support for the preservation of openness and interoperability, enhanced by the multi-stakeholder system of Internet governance.
  • Coordinating cyber capacity-building efforts including testing and standards with respect to cyber security.
The whole-of-government Cyber Dialogue, fifth in the series, was led by the U.S. National Security Council Senior Director for Cyber Policy Samir Jain and by _Shri Santosh Jha, Joint Secretary for Policy Planning and Global Cyber Issues, Ministry of External Affairs. The Department of State Coordinator for Cyber Issues Christopher Painter and the National Security Council Secretariat Joint Secretary Shri Abhimanyu Ghosh co-hosted the Dialogue. The U.S. government interagency delegation included representatives from the Departments of State, Homeland Security, and Commerce, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Indian government was represented by Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communication, Ministry of Home Affairs, Computer Emergency Response Team, National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre, Central Bureau Of Investigation and Defence Research & Development Organisation.

The two countries decided to hold the next round of the Cyber Dialogue in Washington in 2017.

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