"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 $350bn revenue opportunity for the country. It also suggests that this could result in one million employment opportunities for Indian IT professionals by 2025 when it predicts India’s IT sector will be worth $35bn, with cyber security accounting for around 10% of this total. Another area highlighted by Nasscom is Indian start-ups, which the industry body expects to hit around 1k in 2016 alone. A taskforce was set up by Nasscom in 2015 to position India as a global hub for cyber security solutions.