{"id":285279,"date":"2026-07-03T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/iit-madras-and-iit-kanpur-launch-indias-first-bachelor-of-cybersecurity-program-aims-to-close-1-5-million-professional-gap-mumbai-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:20:09","slug":"iit-madras-and-iit-kanpur-launch-indias-first-bachelor-of-cybersecurity-program-aims-to-close-1-5-million-professional-gap-mumbai-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/iit-madras-and-iit-kanpur-launch-indias-first-bachelor-of-cybersecurity-program-aims-to-close-1-5-million-professional-gap-mumbai-news\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur launch India&#8217;s first Bachelor of Cybersecurity; program aims to close 1.5 million professional gap | Mumbai News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mumbai\/iit-madras-and-iit-kanpur-launch-indias-first-bachelor-of-cybersecurity-program-aims-to-close-1-5-million-professional-gap\/articleshow\/132159643.cms\">IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur launch India&#8217;s first Bachelor of Cybersecurity; program aims to close 1.5 million professional gap | Mumbai News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mumbai\/iit-madras-and-iit-kanpur-launch-indias-first-bachelor-of-cybersecurity-program-aims-to-close-1-5-million-professional-gap\/articleshow\/132159643.cms\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mumbai\/iit-madras-and-iit-kanpur-launch-indias-first-bachelor-of-cybersecurity-program-aims-to-close-1-5-million-professional-gap\/articleshow\/132159643.cms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-03 07:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"timesofindia.indiatimes.com\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span title=\"India's top engineering institutes, IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur, have launched a pioneering four-year Bachelor of Cybersecurity program\">India&#8217;s top engineering institutes, IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur, have launched a pioneering four-year Bachelor of Cybersecurity program<\/span> MUMBAI: Cybersecurity is moving from the margins of computer science classrooms to the centre of India\u2019s higher education agenda.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and IIT Kanpur have jointly launched what they describe as India\u2019s first practice-oriented, four-year Bachelor of Cybersecurity programme.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The B. Cyber course will begin in the academic year starting July 2026, with admissions being conducted jointly by the two IITs this year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The programme has been designed to meet India\u2019s rising demand for cybersecurity professionals at a time when digital systems increasingly underpin governance, finance, healthcare, telecom, transport, manufacturing and defence.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Officials said the course will train students not merely in the theory of cybersecurity, but in the operational skills required to protect complex digital infrastructure and critical systems.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Graduates are expected to be prepared for roles in cyber defence, security operations centres, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, digital forensics, malware analysis, cloud security, hardware security and critical infrastructure protection.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>The programme will also provide a foundation for higher studies and research in cybersecurity and computer science.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>\u201cCybersecurity has become fundamental to India\u2019s technological sovereignty and national security,\u201d said Prof V Kamakoti, director, IIT Madras. \u201cBuilding a resilient cyber ecosystem requires professionals who possess not only strong theoretical foundations but also extensive hands-on experience in defending complex systems.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>He said the collaboration with IIT Kanpur marked a new model of undergraduate education, combining academic rigour with real-world practice.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>\u201cWe believe this initiative will create a pipeline of highly skilled cybersecurity professionals who will play a vital role in securing the&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mumbai\/iit-madras-and-iit-kanpur-launch-indias-first-bachelor-of-cybersecurity-program-aims-to-close-1-5-million-professional-gap\/articleshow\/132159643.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur launch India&#8217;s first Bachelor of Cybersecurity; program aims to close&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132159715,width-1280,height-720,resizemode-6,overlay-toi_sw,pt-32,y_pad-600\/photo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[32,57,27],"class_list":["post-285279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-malware","tag-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285281,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285279\/revisions\/285281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}