IIT Madras launches 'Cyber-Warrior' Course
To strengthen law enforcement around the cybersecurity domain, the Digital Skills Academy at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has announced the launch of a comprehensive cybersecurity course - ‘Certified Cyber Warriors v3.
“The course will not only benefit the law enforcement officials into the government sector but also network administration by network security experts in the private and public sector,” said a statement issued by IIT-Madras.
The ‘Certified Cyber Warriors v3.0’ course has been designed as a 120-hour course that includes live online classes conducted over the weekends. Also, the course will provide hands-on experience with practical sessions with over 52 learning tools and a 30-hour intensive boot camp in the IIT Madras campus, the statement informed.
The institute claims that the course will help critical sectors in various aspects, such as data breach, misuse of private information and emails. Through this course, enough knowledge will be shared on the maintenance of robust servers with minimal to zero scopes for data breach or hacking.
The Digital Skills Academy at IIT, Madras has already partnered with Forensic Intelligence Surveillance and Security Technologies (FISST), Chennai, to conduct education in cybersecurity.
C Mohan Ram, chief mission integrator and innovator, FISST, said, “The CCW v3.0 will be covering basic functions of security set-up with tools and settings for prevention of attacks as well as fixing the breach as quickly as possible using internal resources. The courses will be conducted by practicing Infosec experts blended with faculties from IIT-M as well as IIITDM-Kancheepuram.”
(Source: ET Government)
