ASIGMA: Indian Army launched in-house messaging app

Indian Army has launched a WhatsApp-like instant messaging application called ASIGMA (Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application). A state-of-the-art, new-generation web-based application offers robust security measures to protect the chats. It is a new generation web-based application developed entirely in-house by a team of officers of the Corps of Signals of the Army. ASIGMA is being rolled out as a replacement for the Army Wide Area Network messaging application that has been used for the last 15 years. The application has been sent out on Army-owned hardware and will cater to the army from this time forward, lending itself to lifetime support with future upgrades.

Why Indian Army launch this app?

The messaging application is designed to meet all futuristic requirements for the army and boasts of an enhanced user experience. It comes with a variety of contemporary features including multi-level security, dynamic global address book, message prioritization, and tracking, and options to meet the requirements of the army at present. This future-ready messaging application will meet the real-time data transfer and messaging requirements of the Army, especially in the backdrop of the current geopolitical security environment. ASIGMA has been developed in line with the Government of India’s, Make in India initiative.