“Thousands of cyber-attacks […] are striking at the private
sector, strike at stock market, strike at other institutions
within our society, strike at government, strike at the
defence department, our intelligence agencies. Cyber is
now at a point where the technology is there to cripple a
country, to take down our power grid systems, to take
down our government systems, take down our financial
systems and literally paralyze the country."
In the new era, business has transformed its work-style
from reality to virtual reality.
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The whole world is swiped by
this strategy for its accuracy and
non-redundancy measure.
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This new sector where free flow and
accuracy has lowered down the
operational cost of big conglomerate
whereas it has bullion threat from the
remote cyber criminal on the other hand.
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In recent years, cyber-crime has become
increasingly sophisticated, making it
difficult to combat, detect and mitigate.
The rise of a relatively new class of cyber-
attack is especially troubling. This new
class is referred to as an ‘Advanced
Persistent Threat’ (APT).
*Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are usually directed at business and political
targets for political ends. APTs involve stealth to persistently infiltrate a system over a
long period of time, without the system displaying any unusual symptoms.
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Examples of cyber-attacks
Attack on South Korea’s banks and broadcasters, 2013. A suspected cyber-attack
brought down systems and computers at some of South Korea’s major banks and
broadcasters. As a result, the local equity market declined 1.0%.
The Flame virus, 2012. Thought to have been operating since 2010, the Flame virus was
detected in 2012. The virus code is seen as some of the most sophisticated and largest
malicious code to date. It infiltrated computers belonging to the Iranian Oil Ministry,
the Iranian National Oil Company and other networks in Hungary, Lebanon, Austria,
Russia, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates - stealing and deleting information
from the systems. Part of the functionality of the virus including turning on microphones
of computers to secretly record conversations, taking screen grabs of infected
computers and stealing credentials of high-level and administrative users.
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Examples of cyber-attacks
Red October cyber-attack, 2013. Targeting governmental and diplomatic
organisations. The Red October attack was discovered in January of this year, but is
believed to have been operating undetected for a number of years. The attack
effectively stole confidential and encrypted documents (including deleted ones) from
embassies, nuclear research centres and oil and gas companies of US. Information
targeted included geopolitically sensitive data and credentials to access protected
computer systems. The malicious code was also able to detect when a USB stick was
inserted into a networked computer and undelete and steal any files on the stick. The
cyber-crime racket behind the attacks shut-down their operations after the attacks
were made public and documented.
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Examples of cyber-attacks
The MiniDuke Cyber-attack on EU governmental organizations and operators of
critical infrastructure.13 The MiniDuke Cyber-attack exploited a flaw in Adobe’s
Acrobat reader to enter computer networks and gather information.
Operation Aurora, 2009. Attacks against some of the largest internet, technology and
defence companies such as Google, Adobe, Juniper, Yahoo!, Northrup Grumman.
The cyber-attack modified source code by exploiting vulnerabilities in an internet
browser.
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Social Responsibility
To overcome this mission critical situation of cyber sabotage, the skilled man-
force of cyber expert is the solution.
After China and US, India has the highest number of internet users. Besides,
there are over 381 million mobile phone subscriptions with internet
connectivity.
“Today, there are more than 2 billion people online, who need to be protected.
Cyber attacks are already happening on a daily basis in the world and as we
grow more and more ‘connected’, the threats also become more complex and
difficult. On Facebook, there are 50 million Indian users and even if a small
fraction of them click unsuspectingly on a malevolent but seemingly ordinary
link, you have that many computers opened up to risk and infection,” – Former
Minister Shashi Tharoor stated.
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Social Responsibility
India will require five lakh cybersecurity professionals by 2015 to support its fast
growing internet economy as per an estimate by the union ministry of information
technology.
Every organization across verticals will require cybersecurity professionals. Therefore,
the estimate of 5 lakh looks very conservative for a strong internet economy like India.
The actual requirement for cyber security professionals would be in multiples.
University Grants Commission directed all university vice chancellors in the country to
introduce curriculum around cyber security in their respective colleges to meet this
talent demand.
Quoting a Gartner report in its letter, UGC said, "The country's information security
market is expected to grow by 18% to reach Rs 1,415 crore in 2013 on the back of
increased spending by companies to secure their information assets. Despite a
continuing economic slowdown that has been putting pressure on IT budgets around
the world, cyber security spending globally would continue on an upward trajectory,
reaching $86 billion in 2016, up from $60 billion in 2012.“
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Social Responsibility
Cyber security ensures realization and controlling of security
properties of an organization’s as well as users’ intellectual and
financial assets against relevant security risks in the cyber
environment.
BUT…
Cyber expertise can be taught in the syllabus as a part of
curriculum in colleges but practically its hard to horn the skill
with expertise.
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Social Responsibility
Out of 10 buddying engineers/MCA/BCA… pass out, hardly 2-3
get placed in job. This is due to the additional and demanding
skill required by the recruiting company.
Cyber Professional is the very need of every individual company
to protect its virtual infrastructure of company asset.
Cyber Security Market worth $155.74 Billion by 2019.
Cyberfort Technolgies is the all to all solution where cyber
security is taught with complete passion and help shaping the
career of buddying young cyber professionals.
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After a thorough research of world business
and political system, we have designed
few industry driven courses for
students/professionals
 Diploma in Cyber Security (CEH)
 Certificate in Cyber Security (CSCU)
 Project Integrated Program (PIP)
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Syllabus at glance
Diploma in Cyber Security
 Module 01: Introduction to Ethical Hacking
 Module 02: Footprinting and Reconnaissance
 Module 03: Scanning Networks
 Module 04: Enumeration
 Module 05: System Hacking
 Module 06: Trojans and Backdoors
 Module 07: Viruses and Worms
 Module 08: Sniffing
 Module 09: Social Engineering
 Module 10: Denial of Service
 Module 11: Session Hijacking
 Module 12: Hacking Webservers
 Module 13: Hacking Web Applications
 Module 14: SQL Injection
 Module 15: Hacking Wireless Networks
 Module 16: Hacking Mobile Platforms
 Module 17: Evading IDS, Firewalls, and Honeypots
 Module 18: Buffer Overflow
 Module 19: Cryptography
 Module 20: Penetration Testing
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Syllabus at glance
Certificate in Cyber Security
 Module 01: Foundations of Security
 Module 02: Securing Operating Systems
 Module 03: Protecting System Using Antiviruses
 Module 04: Data Encryption
 Module 05: Data Backup and Disaster Recovery
 Module 06: Internet Security
 Module 07: Securing Network Connections
 Module 08: Securing Online Transactions
 Module 09: Securing Email Communications
 Module 10: Social Engineering and Identity Theft
 Module 11: Security on Social Networking Sites
 Module 12: Information Security and Legal Compliance
 Module 13: Securing Mobile Devices
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Syllabus at glance
Project Integrated Program
 Based on Project assigned and industry defined
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Career & Profile after completion
Cyber Security Analyst
Cyber Security Architect
Cyber Security Engineer
Consultant - Cyber Threat Management
Information Security Event Analyst
Cyber Operations Malware Analyst
Executive Manager
Ethical Hacker Cum Cyber Security Trainer
Information Security Consultant
Career in Nationalized Bank
Bank of Maharashtra (Plz see page 7 of the link)
Information Security Officers
http://www.bankofmaharashtra.in/downdocs/FINAL-BOM-
ADVERTISEMENT-BM-2014-22-04.pdf
and many more…
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