siliconindia | | SEPTEMBER 20229Advanced simulated training methodologies, if deployed amongst Indian educational institutes, can bring about dramatic changes on multiple levelsneed for cybersecurity professionals globally to address this problem.In India itself, there is a need of around 3 million cyber-security professionals according to an IBM report. How-ever, the supply of professionals is well within 1,00,000. This fact stresses the need to make cybersecurity a part of our curriculum, especially considering the fast-paced tech adoption throughout the nation. In this context, we can perhaps take some inspiration from western educational institutes.How Can We Learn from the Western Cybersecurity Curriculum?Sensing the need of the hour, a number of prominent educational institutes all over the globe are making cy-bersecurity an integral part of their curriculum. Not just this, they are also ensuring that they leave no stone un-turned to train their students. They are adopting avant-garde methodologies to train their students and make them fit for the job market.For instance, Regent University (US) has developed a world-class facility to extend hands-on training to its students. The university banks on training via simula-tion through Cyber Range, or a software suite that imi-tates real-time attack scenarios and security breaches. It is currently serving as a training center for everyone from local businesses and governments to military or-ganizations and helping them meet the ultramodern data protection needs. The training facility features executive management workshops, in-demand commercial cyber-security certifications, and a large-scale, live-fire, cyber simulation platform. Likewise, Metropolitan State Uni-versity and the Minnesota State IT Center of Excellence have also collaborated on similar lines to launch MN Cy-ber Range. MN Cyber Range envisions to empower cy-ber defense teams with both knowledge and experience to protect critical information, systems, and operations.Advanced simulated training methodologies, if de-ployed amongst Indian educational institutes, can bring about dramatic changes on multiple levels. Primarily, it will help address the skill shortage that the nation's cy-bersecurity industry is currently facing. Secondly, the ap-proach will improve the job scenario and help in battling the unemployment rate in the country. Thirdly, it will cat-alyze research and development around cybersecurity and can, perhaps, make our nation the hub of the global cy-bersecurity market. This can prove to be highly beneficial considering the fact that the digital market is booming at a massive scale on an international level. Lastly, it will add to the market productivity since college graduates will step into the job market fully prepared for the cybersecu-rity challenges ­making the time and capital invested in their training after recruitment a thing of the past.India is a nation that has the largest pool of global youth. If the nation takes the right steps with a forward-looking approach, it will not only be skilling its youth with ultramodern abilities that are in demand, it will simultaneously make our nation an epicenter of global cybersecurity developments. The dividends are consider-ably high and all of it can happen just with a simple re-form in education.
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