S. Vishnu Sharma
CyberPeace Foundation, also known as CPF has fostered partnership with some of the leading educational institutions of the country.
Partnership of CyberPeace Foundation is aimed at promoting cyber security. CyberPeace Foundation is a leading civil society organisation that is active in the field of cyberspace security.
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The educational institutions CyberPeace Foundation has tiedup with are Institute of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers (Delhi), Trident Academy of Technology (Bhubaneswar) and Ramachandra College of Engineering (Eluru, Andhra Pradesh).
CyberPeace Foundation through its tieups with these educational institutions wishes to encourage research in the field of Cyber Security, Cyber Defense and Internet Engineering and Governance.
CyberPeace Foundation plans to establish CyberPeace Centre of Excellence across the three colleges through the partnership.
The other intension of CyberPeace Foundation with help of this partnership is to promote innovation, facilitate design and development of indigenous software tools for Cyber Security and internet standards under the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
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CyberPeace Foundation plans to put to use the partnership with the educational institutions to promote entrepreneurship in cybersecurity to support the Start-up India and Stand –up India initiative of Government of India.
The idea for CyberPeace Foundation is also to take help of this partnership introducing new courses on cyber security, cyber crime investigations.
With help of this partnership, CyberPeace Foundation also intends to jointly apply for grants related to cyber security from government and industry.
CyberPeace Foundation also wishes to carry capacity building measures like awareness sessions, workshops, seminars and roundtables.
Cyber security as a part of the curriculum is yet to go mainstream in India across technical institutes.
Owing to COVID-19 and perennial threats emanating from the domain of cyberspace, India currently trails behind its global counterparts in terms of capacity to address the growing volume of threats.
Phishing, scamming, malicious domains, stalker were, ransomware etc. have witnessed a manifold increase in the last few months especially as internet usage surges owing to the restrictions around COVID-19 designed to contain the spread of the virus.
Cybersecurity as a professional career choice has been on the rise over the last few years and has opened up highly remunerative career options globally.
The initiative by CyberPeace Foundation will further strengthen the efforts between the educational ecosystem and itself to jointly combat the menace of cybercrimes and create more cybersecurity literate trained students across India.
Speaking about the initiative, Vineet Kumar, Founder, CyberPeace Foundation said low barrier to entry for internet usage has made people more vulnerable online.
There exists a clear gap in our levels of awareness of cybercrime attacks across India.
We are delighted to partner with the Institute Of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers, Delhi, Trident Academy of Technology, Bhubaneswar and Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh as we work jointly to spread awareness, combat cybercrimes and up skill thousands of students across India and encourage them to opt for careers in cybersecurity, he said.
About CyberPeace Foundation
CyberPeace Foundation is an award-winning nonpartisan civil society organization, think tank of cybersecurity and policy experts with the vision of pioneering CyberPeace Initiatives to build collective resilience against cybercrime and global threats of cyber warfare.
CPF is involved in Policy Advocacy, Research and Training related to all aspects of CyberPeace and CyberSecurity. Key areas of Cyber Peace Foundation work are in Technology Governance, Policy Review and Advocacy, Capacity and Capability creation and building through partnerships with various government organizations, academic institutions and civil society entities.
Cyber Peace Foundation’s work towards Internet Governance and Cyber Security is aligned towards 5 UN’s sustainable development goals. That is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, develop industry, innovation and infrastructure.
The other mission is to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, bring peace, justice and strong Institutions and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
Among the very few organizations in the world working for ‘Peace’, the Cyber Peace Foundation stands to be the first NGO in the world to work for ‘Cyber Peace’.
Cyber Peace Foundation focuses on awareness, counselling, education, training and reaching out to the citizens, the government firms, law enforcement agencies (LEAs), private enterprises, NGOs working in cyber-crime and cyber security, universities, cyber security experts and bug bounty hunters; to provide a common platform on a global level for all experts to come under a common umbrella.