New Delhi, June 8 -- The IIT panel has granted security clearance to the examiner-facing Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) evaluation portal, which will be used in the re-evaluation process amid concerns over the platform's security and reports of attempted cyberattacks.

This comes after the CBSE's re-evaluation portal was targeted by a large-scale cyberattack involving nearly 3.8 million malicious packets on June 3 in an apparent attempt to disrupt the ongoing verification and re-evaluation process.

CBSE decided not to use COEMPT Eduteck Pvt Ltd for scanning answer sheets during the ongoing re-evaluation process, an IIT panel member told ANI on Monday.

"While the new system retains functionalities similar to the earlier plat...