India to prepare army of reverse engineers to counter cyber attacks

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-to-prepare-army-of-reverse-engineers-to-counter-cyber-attacks/articleshow/24828465.cms

By Manash Pratim Gohain
The Times of India
Oct 28, 2013

NEW DELHI: National Security Database, an initiative of Information 
Sharing and Analysis Center ( ISAC) in association with Ground Zero Summit 
2013 on Monday organized a seminar on Reverse Engineering in New Delhi. 
The seminar was organized to identify and create the need for the most 
credible and valuable information security professionals in India, 
especially in reverse engineering, to protect the National Critical 
Infrastructure and economy of the country.

The seminar deliberated the growing need of reverse engineers in the 
country to counter cyber attacks and piracy. As the $100 billion 
information technology industry seeks to chart a new course by fostering 
software product companies, reverse engineering to become a promising 
field for jobs in the IT and software development sector.

According to NSD, there are less than 5,000 reverse engineering experts 
currently in India. NSD in collaboration with various Academic 
Institutions across India aims to increase the number of reverse 
engineering professionals in the country to 1 lakh by 2015, through 
training and awareness. National Security Database has joined hands with 
Ground Zero Summit (G0S) 2013 and is promoting Asia's largest Information 
Security Summit (G0S) scheduled to take place from 7-10 November, 2013.

Speaking at the seminar Rajshekar Murthy, director, NSD, said: "Hacking 
has become a growing threat to Indian IT industry. Some recent data theft 
cases by hackers has made India's $100 billion IT industry a primary 
target. The acute shortage of reverse engineering professionals will 
further hit the IT industry and the economic loss will grow exponentially 
due to piracy and insecure coding."

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