Amidst the on-screen marking controversy, the entire data of class 12th was transferred to its server, IIT experts tightened their belts.

Amidst the huge controversies and technical glitches that have been going on for the last few days regarding the On-Screen Marking (OSM) digital evaluation system of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the Board has taken a very big and tough step. Keeping the privacy and security of students paramount, CBSE has completely removed all the sensitive data related to Class 12 answer sheets and revaluation from the servers of a private company. The Board has now successfully migrated this entire record to its own secure and official servers. This decision is being considered very important for the transparency of the examination system and to protect the interests of students, because serious questions were being raised on the methods of digital checking for some time.

There was a stir due to the student’s missing copy and incomplete mark sheet, the board woke up after this big negligence.

This whole matter heated up when a sensational case of huge irregularities in the marksheet of a CBSE 12th student Tanishk Vats came to light. Subject wise marks were not recorded in the marksheet that the student received after the declaration of results. Subsequently, when the distressed family asked the board for scanned answer sheets of all six subjects as part of the revaluation process, they were provided copies of only five subjects and the most important Biology answer sheet was found completely missing from the system. However, in view of the growing controversy, CBSE later found the missing copy and provided it to the student and also released the revised marksheet on May 18, five days after the result was declared, but this gross negligence had exposed the digital checking system of the board.

Cyber ​​security veterans from IIT Kanpur and Madras took command, security audit conducted in five phases

After the credibility of the digital assessment system was tarnished, CBSE immediately turned to the top technical institutes of the country. The Board took the help of eminent cyber security experts from IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras to address the technical vulnerabilities and potential cyber threats of the OSM portal. Joint teams of IIT officials, Digital India Corporation and CBSE jointly conducted rigorous security testing of the entire platform in multiple phases. During the security audit, the coding of the OSM platform was thoroughly reviewed and all the loopholes (weaknesses) present in it were rectified. Before making this entire digital system live again, its security assessment was done by experts in five rigorous stages, so that any incident like data leak or disappearance of copies cannot happen again in future.

Only tainted company Koempt Edutech got the scanning work, know why the board did not blacklist it

The most surprising aspect of this entire controversy is that despite technical glitches and lapses in data security, CBSE has allowed the controversial Hyderabad-based company ‘Koempt Edutech Private Limited’ to continue the work of scanning answer sheets in the revaluation process. The Board has given a practical reason for not excluding the company from this entire process. According to officials, the company had scanned about 40 crore pages earlier this session, out of which some technical problems were found in only 30 thousand pages. Since the data is now completely under CBSE’s own servers and control, the company can complete the work of re-scanning the remaining disputed or affected pages easily and without wasting time.