IITK, Tata Advanced Systems collaborate for cybersecurity solutions

The partnership brings together two organisations to advance the realm of cybersecurity through collaborative research, innovation, and development.

3iHub, a cybersecurity technology innovation hub at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India under NM-ICPS Mission, has collaborated with the Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons and the aerospace and defense arm of the TATA Group. 

The partnership brings together two organisations to advance the realm of cybersecurity through collaborative research, innovation, and development. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was officially signed by Tanima Hajra, Chief Operating Officer (COO), C3iHub; and Suresh Baroth, Head, Weapons, Sensors & Security of Tata Advanced Systems Limited. 

By joining forces, C3iHub and TASL aim at leveraging their expertise, knowledge, and resources to address the challenges posed by cyber threats in the defense sector. Prof Manindra Agrawal, project director of C3iHub, said, “C3iHub has gradually developed its expertise in the field of cybersecurity. With an aim to share our expertise, the MoU signing with the TASL is a major step in this direction. I look forward for a greater collaboration.”  

Suresh Baroth, head, weapons, sensors and security of TASL, said, “TASL made various weapon systems for Indian Armed Forces and our main objective is to cyberproof and cybersecure these systems and no one is better than C3iHub to test these systems.” 

C3iHub at IIT Kanpur focuses on all aspects, including analysing security vulnerabilities and developing tools to address them at various levels of system architecture, to translating these tools into deployment-ready software, to nucleating start-ups developing such tools at scale, to partnering with industries within domain for co-development and technology transfer, and to training the next generation of cybersecurity researchers to build a cybersecurity ecosystem. 

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