On 26 April 2022, The CyberDiplomat delivered a cyber awareness session at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in New Delhi. Opening remarks were made by Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, then Chairman of AICTE.
Reaching the institutions that reach everyone else
AICTE is the national regulator for technical education in India. The technical institutions within its remit teach millions of students, and those students go on to build and run the country’s digital systems. A session at AICTE is therefore not one audience — it is an audience with reach.
Get cyber awareness into technical education, and you change the default habits of an entire profession.
What we discussed
- The threat picture facing educational institutions themselves: ransomware, compromised email, exposed student data.
- Why cybersecurity deserves a place across engineering curricula rather than in a single elective.
- Practical awareness that works on campus, for faculty and administrators as much as for students.
- The skills gap: what industry actually looks for, and how institutions can help close it.
Our thanks to AICTE for hosting, and to Prof. Sahasrabudhe for opening the session. Much of our subsequent work with engineering colleges across India — awareness programmes, MoUs and centres of excellence — grew from conversations that started here.
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