NEW DELHI: The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has launched a specialized Artificial Intelligence (AI) war room to analyze vulnerabilities in advanced foreign AI models and strengthen the country’s indigenous security systems.
Speaking at the launch of the second edition of CERT-In’s Digital Risk Report on Monday, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Secretary S. Krishnan stated that the war room is currently working on AI models that possess around 60 to 70 percent of the capabilities of cutting-edge global models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.6.
“CERT-In has created a sandbox and testing environment where various aspects of these AI models are being evaluated. Potential vulnerabilities are being identified so that we are fully prepared by the time we gain access to these advanced models,” Krishnan said.
The initiative aims to ensure that before Indian companies and government agencies gain seamless access to these state-of-the-art AI models, their potential weaknesses and necessary security fixes are already mapped out. Krishnan emphasized that the AI war room will also ensure that a significant portion of indigenous AI models and security frameworks can be developed without relying heavily on these foreign, general-purpose frontier models.
Acknowledging the security challenges, the IT Secretary noted that while risks exist, the government’s priority is securing access to these models. However, he clarified that the processing of all sensitive information will strictly take place within the government’s own premises.
Previously, early access to Anthropic’s latest general-purpose model, Claude Mythos, was granted to a select group of Indian government agencies under the expansion of the Glasswing Project. These included the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), CERT-In, the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC), and the Department of Telecommunications’ Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP).
However, this access was subsequently suspended after the United States imposed restrictions on foreign nationals accessing Claude Mythos. Krishnan revealed that the Indian government is currently in talks with relevant US agencies and the concerned companies to restore India’s access to these advanced models.
