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NEW DELHI: Hours aft the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) launched its much-anticipated verification and re-evaluation portal for Class 12 students connected Tuesday, the committee reported a bid of "cyber threats" targeting the platform.According to CBSE, astatine 1 point, the portal received astir 15 lakh hits wrong conscionable 2 minutes arsenic an effort to contradict students entree to the platform. The committee besides detected much than 1 lakh attempts to summation unauthorised entree to files, which it attributed to the activities of “malicious actors” seeking to disrupt services."The CBSE re-evaluation portal is presently supporting much than 8,000 concurrent users.
As of 3 p.m. today, implicit 16,000 students person successfully submitted their applications," the committee said successful a station connected X.
"While thousands of students accessed the CBSE re-evaluation portal today, malicious actors attempted to disrupt services done a barrage of cyberattacks. Most caller being a denial of work onslaught effort causing 1.5 cardinal hits connected the portal wrong a substance of 2 minutes and much than 1 lakh attempts of unauthorised record access," it added.
CBSE further stated that contempt the challenges, the level remains operational and has been further refined based connected feedback from students. Among the improvements introduced are extended league clip limits to marque the submission process much convenient and seamless.The portal went unrecorded a time aft a CBSE authoritative informed ANI that the platform's launch, primitively scheduled for Monday, had been delayed owed to method issues.
The postponement had raised concerns among students and parents, particularly successful airy of reports of glitches during the answer-sheet entree process earlier this month.CBSE had antecedently maintained that the portal would beryllium launched to guarantee a transparent and seamless mechanics for students seeking verification of marks and re-evaluation of reply books.The rollout besides comes amid the board's efforts to bolster cybersecurity safeguards astir the OnMark portal, operated by its work provider. On Sunday, CBSE announced that a squad of cybersecurity experts drawn from assorted authorities agencies and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) had been deployed to fortify the platform's information infrastructure.(With ANI inputs)
