Cyber Security To Offer 5 Lakh Jobs, India Lack Skilled Professionals

In an age where cyber security has become imperative for every corporate in the country, India is facing a dearth of trained professionals in the sector. The rapidly growing cyber security industry will soon have over five lakh jobs in India while there are less than 2000 professionals to understand and execute the job efficiently.

The fact was revealed by Dilip Chenoy, managing director and CEO of NSDC, at an event organised by industry body ASSOCHAM. He said, “With some 44 million small and medium enterprises in the country, even if five percent of them require cyber security personnel of one each the requirement would go up by many factors. The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) was holding a stakeholders dialogue on this issue of security personnel embedded in enterprises and create a job map. We need cyber security personnel even schools.”

Additionally, the country requires new standards of cyber security to make networks hack proof. “With the kind of threat to the computer systems from various quarters that were emerging, we need 100% competency standards in the area”, noted Chenoy.

Elaborating on the matter, Anupam Joshi Director, UMBC Center for Cyber Security and Cyber Scholars Programme explained that hackers have now become more sophisticated and are carrying the attacks in multi steps. He said that the need of the hour was to create a defense that would shield the entire network and not just one form of technology.

Another such expert Prof. Prabaharan from Amrita University, considered to be one of the best multi-disciplinary research university in the country, revealed that smartphones are also being targeted by hackers.

Warned by the possible threats in smartphones, the players in the telecom industry in the country were taking every possible step to make the upcoming 4G Mobile Broadband Network secured against multiple cyber attacks.

One such player, Huawei Telecommunication has already invested as much as $600 million in research on cyber security. “Our company is also working on 5G Mobile Broadband Network to secure it against such attacks. Next generation firewall would secure the 4G network with “every part of Huawei and every person getting included in the company’s built-in strategy. Cloud specific security framework was also being provided for 4G Cloud,” said Debu Nayak, chief security officer, Huawei Telecommunication India.