Centre for Cyber Security and Data Analytics is launched at Andhra University : ISEA Project Phase 2, MeitY, Govt of India

The Centre for Cyber Security and Data Analytics at Andhra University campus aims at providing additional knowledge on contemporary issues, challenges and practices related to information security and data analytics related topics. The Centre envisions to train students, faculty, industry and government organizations involving experts from corporates and other academic institutions with the support of NASSCOM through APSSDC. TV9 coverage of the same is given below.

The Centre has necessary hardware and software infrastructure to train batches of size 30 in these areas. The Centre is partly funded by ISEA (information Security Education and Awareness) Project phase-2 of MeitY, Government of India. Under this scheme, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati will mentor the research carried out at this Centre. Prof M. Shashi and Prof V. Valli Kumari are the Chief and Co-Investigators of this project.

The Centre is open for conducting any hands on workshops and training programmes in the relevant fields upon request. The participants can experiment with the firewalls, switches, virtual wireless controllers, access points, network security, application security softwares and data analytics tools. In future necessary environment for cloud security and forensics will be provided. The participants can appear for certification exams.

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Second Annual Appraisal Workshop ISEA Project Phase II was conducted  at IITM Research Park, IIT Madras Campus, Chennai. The event was coordinated by Prof.V.Kamakoti, IIT Madras.

Broadly, the two day workshop gave an opportunity to review the activities done so far, apprising various institutes about their roles & responsibilities (including the newly joined institutes / Technical Universities, aligning the activities of RCs & PIs with major / minor areas of ISRDCs (logical clustering) and set the expectation for future.

The event was presided by Shri Sanjiv Mittal, Joint Secretary DeitY and the special address was given by Prof. N. Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore. Commissioner, Chennai Police inaugurated the cyber security week and released the Information security awareness poster or brochure.

Vote of Thanks was given by Shri E Magesh, Director, C-DAC Hyd and the inaugural was closed.

In Session I Shri Sanjay Kumar Vyas, DeitY discussed at length on what was expected from the institutions.  ISEA II Requirements were given by Shri Ch. A S Murty, CDAC Hyd. An overview of the ISEA Website / MIS, Courseware / Repository was given by CDAC employees

In Session II  vision of each ISRDCs w.r.t. their major/minor research areas was discussed. The session was Chaired by Prof N.Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore. Prof R K Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay, Prof Sukumar Nandi, IIT Guwahati, Prof. V Kamakoti, IIT Madras spoke about their ISRDCs.

In Session III a separate Break out Session for Review of Cluster Performances by 4 ISRDCs covering was conducted:

 Major / Minor areas alignment

 Mentoring between centres for Phd guidance, research

papers etc.

 Norms for sharing of labs at ISRDC

 Review of RCs and PIs performance against the targets

decided and targets for the future

 Utilization of Capital Budget / Capital Equipment

procured and Financial status

 Any other point

Moderator: ISEA PMU

On Day 2 in session I,  a roadmap of 4 ISRDCs was presented by the RCs. The session was Chaired by Prof. N Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore.

Prof. V Kamakoti, IIT Madras gave the closing remarks