After initial denial, CBSE invited ethical hacker to plug gaps in IT system

Key points

• For two weeks, an IIT expert team worked 16 to 18 hours every day to patch vulnerabilities that were emerging in the CBSE IT ecosystem The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) invited ethical hacker Nisarga Adhikary, 19, this week for meetings with an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) expert team to flag security gaps in its IT ecosystem.
• Mr. Adhikary had last month reported “critical vulnerabilities” in the portal that stores sensitive student data.
• The CBSE had earlier denied any breach in its data security.
• “Nisarga is a bright kid.
• He found important vulnerabilities.