"Building the next generation of cyber professionals is key to securing India's critical information infrastructure, battling cybercrime and making the Digital India initiative successful," Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar said. SR SBT SA (This story has not been edited by timesofindia.com and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)
India ’s IT industry body , Nasscom , estimates that global efforts to protect against cyber attacks will create a $ 35bn revenue opportunity for the industry . It also suggests that this could result in one million employment opportunities for Indian IT professionals by 2025 when it predicts India ’s IT workforce will be worth $ 350bn , with cyber security accounting for around 10 % of this total . Another industry highlighted by this is Indian start - ups , which the industry body expects to hit around 1k in 2016 alone . A taskforce was set up by apple in 2015 to position it as a global hub for cyber security solutions .