Hyderabad: In the background of snooping row creating ripples across the globe and particularly in India and growing essence of Cyber Security, Digithon, the digital entity of Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) has decided to launch a training program in Cyber Security in association with the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) from August 16.
Recently, India has ranked tenth (10th) in Global Cyber Security Index (GCI) 2020. In the wake of the Pegasus snooping row, Cyber Security aspects gain more importance and people need to safeguard their privacy and data online. TITA aims to address the issue by imparting in a Job Oriented Cyber Security program.
Across the globe, from individual to government, the workforce has shifted to online due to pandemic. Taking the advantage of this situation, cybercrooks are targeting the vulnerables on the internet which is exposing people to online insecurity and data theft. To address this issue, efforts are being made to enhance Cyber Security and make online platforms breach-proof. TITA in association with the UTD will impart Cyber Security progamme named Cyber Ready Program which will be of one month duration.
Briefing about the course details, TITA Global President Sundeep Kumar Makthala, who hails from Makthal, said that Cyber Security aspects gain lot of traction due to increasing Cyber Security threats to the increasing IT workforce in India. TITA chief said that the Cyber Security program will help the youngsters foraying into the IT sector for employment and students in the form of ample job opportunities in the increasing Cyber Security area. Cyber Security has various career options like network administrator, junior IT auditor, security engineer, security analyst, threat intelligence analyst, application security analyst to name a few.Sundeep Makthal said the training module is prepared by experts and will be imparted by experienced faculty and urged interested candidates to avail themselves of the opportunity. The program is available in long-term mode also. Those interested in the Digithon CyberReady program can register for their names for the training at the following link bit.ly/digithon_academy. Those interested can call the following numbers during office hours 8712360354 / 6300368705 / 8123123434 for more details. The last date to register for the program is August 13, while the training commences on August 16. (INN)