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The National Cyber Security Coordinator’s office in partnership with Data Security Council (DSCI) of India on Monday launched TechSagar.
It is a platform to discover India’s technological capability through a portal.

TechSagar is a consolidated and comprehensive repository of India’s cyber tech capabilities
The portal will list business and research entities
These include internet of things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), block chain, cloud & virtualization, robotics & automation, ar/vr, wireless & networking, and more.

As of now, the repository features 4000+ entities from industry, academia and research including large enterprises and start-ups providing a country level view of India’s cyber competencies.

In order to combat the growing threat from cyber crime, there is an urgent need to collaborate and develop cyber technology capabilities in India.
This is a good example of government facilitating industry growth in a strategic domain.
Start-ups, enterprises, academia, researchers, and R&D institutes in the country need to synergies their efforts and work in tandem to make India a technology leader.

DSCI is not-for-profit industry body on data protection in India, setup by NASSCOM.
It is committed to making the cyberspace safe
To further its objectives, DSCI engages with governments and their agencies.

Cyber Security is protecting cyber space including critical information infrastructure from attack, damage, misuse and economic espionage.
Cyber Space
Cyber Attack

Increased use of mobile technology and internet by people.
Proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) and lack of proper security infrastructure in some devices.
Cyberspace has inherent vulnerabilities that cannot be removed.
Internet technology makes it relatively easy to misdirect attribution to other parties.
It is generally seen that attack technology outpaces defence technology.
Lack of awareness on Cyber security.
Lack of Cyber security specialists.
Increased use of cyberspace by terrorists.

Real-time intelligence is required for preventing and containing cyber attacks.
Periodical ‘Backup of Data’ is a solution to ransomware.
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for predicting and accurately identifying attacks.
Using the knowledge gained from actual attacks that have already taken place in building effective and pragmatic defence.