Preparing skilled cyber security professionals in India

Over 10,000 students are set to be trained in EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker and Secure Coding programs as part of Institute of Advance Network Technology’s (IANT) academic curricula to prepare them to become cyber warriors in India.

According to the recent data, India needs 4.7 lakh cyber security professionals by 2015 for protection of IT infrastructure in the country as well as to serve the export market.  As per a report by Gartner in 2011, the IT security market in India is estimated to be around USD 218 million (2012), with an annual growth rate of 20-30 per cent and the market is expected to have a CAGR of 16.4 per cent from 2011-2016.

To help bridge this gap of need and availability of skilled professionals, IANT, an ISO 9001-2008 certified institute, is set to offer EC-Council’s world famous certifications to its students to ensure that the graduates are significantly advanced in cyber security skills as compared to graduates from other colleges in India, that lack world recognised cyber security credentials like the ANSI -ISO 17024 accredited Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and EC-Council Certified Secure Programmer (ECSP), said an IANT press release.

Rahim Kherani, chairman, IANT said, “Academic Institutes cannot afford to lay back and wait for the Government to do something. Instead, they need to be proactive and take measures to help the nation to produce Cyber Warriors. Once again, we at IANT, have taken the leadership role in doing this for the nation. ”

IANT, India's leading hardware & network institute, caters to over 10,000 students through its 110+ institutes across India and all of their students will go through an intensive course in Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and EC-Council Certified Secure Programmer (ECSP).

“EC Council is dedicated to strengthening cyber security in India and to tackle the issue of lack of skilled professionals we are partnering with training institutions across India. IANT is one of the largest training institutes in India and we are glad to come together with them to promote the awareness and education of cyber security. We aim to help India in creating its breed of cyber warriors to defend its cyber space and assets via academic partnerships with institutions like IANT,” said Jay Bavisi, president, EC-Council (International Council of E-Commerce Consultants), world's leading provider of certifications and training in the information security domain.