Army officers require not depend on external mobile applications for interacting with each other any longer as they now have a safe application of their own to talk among themselves.
In the quest for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, the Indian Army has developed an easy and safe messaging application called ‘Secure Application for Internet’ (SAI), the Army stated on Thursday.
What is Secure Application for Internet?The application resembles commercially offered messaging applications like WhatsApp, Telegram, SAMVAD and GIMS, and utilizes end-to-end file encryption messaging protocol.
” It supports end-to-end safe voice, text and video calling services for Android platform over web. The model SAI ratings over on security functions with local in-house servers and coding which can be fine-tuned according to requirements,” the Army stated.
Why did Army establish Secure Application for Internet?There have been concerns use of industrial mobile applications by about Army officials for communicating with each other may compromise security.
Earlier this year, the Army had issued an order prohibiting 89 apps for its personnel who were ask to erase popular apps such as Facebook, Truecaller, Instagram and video games like PUBG from their cellphones.
The order was intended to plug leak of delicate nationwide security info from phones of armed forces personnel.
The Army stated its brand-new in-house application, Secure Application for Internet’, has been vetted by CERT-in empanelled auditor and Army Cyber Group.
The procedure for submitting Copyright Rights (IPR), hosting the facilities on NIC and dealing with iOS platform is presently in progress. Secure Application for Internet will be utilised throughout the Army to help with safe and secure messaging within the service.
Who established Secure Application for Internet?The application has actually been developed
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