A team of cyber security experts from the city-based eSF Labs Limited will head the Cyber Defence Centre to be inaugurated at Gandhinagar in Gujarat on October 5.
The centre will impart technical skills to professionals of different sectors in detecting and thwarting cyber attacks, thus enhancing cyber security across the globe.
“The project, a first-of-its-kind in India, is being established jointly by the Government of Gujarat and eSF Labs Limited on Gujarat Forensic Sciences University campus,” eSF Labs founder-chairman A. Anil told
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“We are the technical partners in the three-year project. Defence personnel, staff of various banking and financial institutions, academicians, various government agencies, law enforcement officers, service providers, students, and corporate professionals will be trained at the centre,” said eSF Labs director Moin Shaikh. The Cyber Defence Centre will provide robust information on data theft, hacking, malware attacks, phishing, cyber frauds, infrastructure security, and security breaches, and enlighten the trainees on cyber attacks with some case studies. eSF Labs, which has its corporate office at Tadepalli near Vijayawada, had imparted training to the police and law officers, and other groups in Andhra Pradesh in the past.
“A team is offering services on cyber security and digital forensic solutions, cyber threat intelligence, secure coding and code review, malware analysis and security readiness plan, and incident response, which are very essential for every organisation at this juncture. The proposed centre in Gujarat will provide highly specialised skills and help the managements combat the new- age risks,” Mr. Anil said. At present, ransomware, credential thefts, malicious domains and websites, and data leakage by attackers were haunting many firms, said the cyber security experts.