The United States is having close co-operation with India on a range of issues related to cyber security and the country wants to expand it, a US official has said.

"We have had great cooperation with India. We've had many meetings with Indian officials in various different fora, including at the White House level," Christopher Painter, the State Department Co-coordinator for Cyber Issues, told a group of foreign journalists in a media roundtable.

"I think we have lots more meetings coming up. I think we have very good cooperation with India, and that's something we want to build on and expand," he said in response to a question.

Talks with India, he said, are just a reflection of the fact that they are talking about how to exchange information, cooperate in securing networks, for instance, in fighting crime, in reaching agreement about these norms.

"That's a global effort that requires countries like India to work together with us in reaching that result. So there's been very robust cooperation around that. And I've also been to India ? not recently but I've been there a couple of years ago ?? and I've met with Indian officials here. So this is something we take very importantly," he said.

Painter said the International Strategy for Cyberspace released early this week for the first time pulls together all the different strands of our policies in cyberspace from Internet freedom issues to Internet governance issues, to security issues, to military issues, to cyber crime issues, to economic issues, and puts them really all in one framework for the first time.

"For the time what our goals are in cyberspace, what the future we'd like to see achieved in cyberspace. And I should note this is not ? although this is a strategy that's issued by our President, is it not a uniquely American vision.

It is a vision that should be, and is, a world vision. And one of the key things behind this strategy is to find partners and to build a consensus around it," he said.

"The goal that we lay out is a future for cyberspace that is open, interoperable, secure, and reliable, that is something that can undergird and promote economic growth and innovation, free expression, the free flow of information," Painter said.

"And to achieve that goal and to build that future, that we want to sustain an environment where norms of responsible behaviour guide states' actions, sustain partnerships, and support the rule of law in cyberspace," he said.

The policy, he said, also lays out a number of priorities, and those include: the economy ? promoting international standards for open and innovative markets, that includes sustaining free trade, protecting intellectual property, for instance; protecting networks by enhancing security, reliability, and resiliency, that all nations need to protect their networks and work together to do that.