Kolkata, Jul 16 (PTI) Affordable online courses in cybersecurity will be offered soon at the Webel Fujisoft Vara Centre of Excellence, an initiative of the West Bengal government to promote new technology in the state.
Students and professionals will be able to avail these courses at the CoE in Rajarhat from August. It will be in collaboration with Israeli company ThinkCyber, according to a release by the West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Ltd (Webel).
“The courses are designed to make learners job-ready and will help to address the gap for lack of skilled cybersecurity professionals in our country,” CoE head Rashmi Sharma said.
The official described the collaboration as a “double benefit” for learners as they would have access to world-class cyber-security programmes, which provides training in skills that would support them in finding lucrative jobs.
“We have worked hard to make these online cyber-security courses affordable,” Sharma said, adding that the training would be delivered online using video-based learning.
Students will have access to Cyberium, a sophisticated simulator that provides labs and scenarios that are powered by Specto, a live advanced cyber-monitoring system.
ThinkCyber Israel chief executive officer David Shiffman they were pleased to bring to India the same technologies that “we use for training cyber-security professionals in several countries around the world”.
Shiffman said the courses provided the “perfect launch pad to build the skills that will set them apart as highly trained professionals in cybersecurity”.
The CoE is a joint collaboration of Webel with Fujisoft Inc and Vara Technology.
According to cybersecurity firm Norton. India is one of the most-targeted countries in the world in terms of cyber-attacks.
There were over 18 million cyber-attacks and threats in India in the first three months of 2022, with 2 lakh threats every day on an average. PTI BSM HMB HMB
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