Data analysis based on the last week showed that a substantial proportion of women workers in domestic work are getting themselves registered on the portal. This is one category of occupation where women outnumber men.

Besides, women form substantial proportion of workforce in sectors like agriculture as labourers, food industries as helpers and machine operators, apparel industry as helpers and tailors and also in small scale units of tobacco/ beedi rolling and as ASHAs/ ANMs in the healthcare industry.

Therefore, it would not be wrong to assume that most vulnerable groups of women are insured under various protection schemes accruing from registration at the portal, the ministry said. Since week one, Odisha and Bihar have competed with each other to maintain the first position, it stated.

There is a need to equip these businesses with knowledge and hands-on training on how to identify and combat these threats, and, become more cyber-resilient, Union MSME ministry’s director SK Sahoo said.

Cyber security remains an “area of serious concern” for the MSMEs, and the vulnerabilities of these businesses stem from several factors such as “lack of understanding of cyber security risks, less prioritisation for safety and limited capital allocation, he said in a workshop here.