Professor B Thimmegowda, vice-chairman of Karnataka Greater Schooling Council, Friday stated {that a} cybersecurity course could be a obligatory topic in all diploma programs from the following educational 12 months.
He made the announcement on the sidelines of Cybersecurity Consciousness Month Programme 2022, which was formally launched by Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, Minister of Greater Schooling and Info Know-how.
Thimmegowda stated that the brand new cybersecurity course within the larger training sector would come into pressure aside from the present Info and Know-how and Pc Science programs.
“We now have already launched Synthetic Intelligence and digital fluency parts this 12 months. Nevertheless, subsequent 12 months we are going to make the cybersecurity course, in collaboration with NASSCOM, obligatory for all diploma college students no matter their streams,” he stated.
IT Minister Narayan stated that as cyber crimes have change into extra rampant, it was vital to incorporate cybersecurity programs within the curriculum of non-technical college students as nicely. “Digital literacy programs corresponding to cybersecurity and Synthetic Intelligence are obligatory as per the brand new Nationwide Schooling Coverage – 2020,” he stated.
The minister additionally promised that the state would quickly be releasing a Cybersecurity Coverage aimed to construct a robust cybersecurity ecosystem within the state, together with defining the methods to guard the state’s IT belongings.
Karnataka additionally intends to setup a state CERT (Pc Emergency Response Crew) for the efficient coordination of responses to cyber safety incidents on the state degree, he stated.
The programme shall be operationalised by CySecK – the Okay-tech Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity, whereby a collection of consciousness programmes shall be organised all through October throughout completely different sectors.
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