MCTE to hold hackathon on cyber security

Registration opens on October 16, 2021, for undergraduate students and defence personnel only. The final winners will receive their prizes on Army Day. 

The Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE) Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, in collaboration with Rashtriya Raksha University and Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), is conducting the first cyber threat seminar-cum-hackathon for the Indian Army. The hackathon is extended over three months. 

Lt Gen MU Nair, commandant MCTE, said the participants would be open across the country to engineering students and also to Army, Air Force and Navy personnel. It is expected that at least 30,000 people will participate in the same in online mode. 
There will be a dedicated web portal, sainya-ranakshetram.in, which will allow for registration as also tracking the conduct of the event in real time. Conducted over three stages, the levels of training will keep increasing through each stage. The final level will also see participants competing with each other in the fields of secure coding and exploitation of software-defined radios. The event will also host a number of seminars, expert talks and conclaves, to focus on emerging cyber threats in the military domain and their methods of mitigation.  

The MCTE is the engineering training establishment for the Corps of Signals, established 1911, of the Indian Army. It is located near Indore, in the town formerly known as Mhow, now called Dr Ambedkar Nagar, in Madhya Pradesh.

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