At a time when cyber security has become paramount for digital enterprises, Cisco India on Thursday announced three new initiatives to help the country build a transparent and secure digital infrastructure environment.
Cisco will open a new Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Pune which will provide services ranging from monitoring and management to comprehensive threat solutions and hosted security that can be customised.
The $49.24 billion company also launched a Cisco Cyber Range Lab at its Gurugram facility which will provide specialised technical training workshops to help security staff build the skills and experience necessary to combat new-age cyber threats.
Recognising that cybersecurity is critical to India’s drive to digitise its economy, Cisco’s global Security & Trust Organization (S&TO) and Cisco Indiaannounced the formation of Cisco S&TO-Indiathat will help the government shape the national cybersecurity strategy and initiatives.
To achieve this, Cisco and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the presence of Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Cisco has three Security Operations Centres worldwide — Poland, the US and Japan. With India as the fourth location, this structure will allow Cisco to provide 24-hour service for customers regardless of time zone.
As per a Cisco report, there are more than one million unfulfilled security jobs worldwide currently. To help increase the pool of talent with critical cybersecurity proficiency, the company announced a $10 million Global Cybersecurity Scholarship globally in June.
By Baishakhi Dutta
