Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Ajay Kumar Sood today inaugurated the ‘Bharat NCX 2023. Addressing the event, Mr. Sood laid out the importance of Digital Public Infrastructure protection, hardware security needs and Post Quantum Cryptography.

The second edition of the National Cyber Security Exercise 2023 ‘Bharat NCX 2023’ will be conducted as a hybrid exercise over a period of twelve days till 20th of this month. The exercise aims to train senior management and technical personnel of Government and Critical Sector organizations and Public and Private agencies on contemporary cyber threats and handling cyber incidents and response. The programme is being conducted by the National Security Council Secretariat in strategic partnership with Rashtriya Raksha University. The participants will be trained on various key cyber security areas such as Intrusion Detection Techniques, Malware Information Sharing Platform, Vulnerability Handling and Penetration Testing, Network Protocols and Data Flows, Digital Forensics.