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According to Nasscom, Indian IT and BPM (business process management) industry, employs around 1 3 million women, which is around 34 per cent of the total workforce Moreover, over 24 per cent of them hold managerial positions.

Indian startups are expected to take advantage of the platform. According to Nasscom s data from earlier this year, India has become the third largest tech start up ecosystem in the world, after the US and China.

It recommended upgrading physical and social infrastructure beyond Bengaluru and developing new economic clusters, particularly in tiertwo cities such as Belagavi, HubballiDharwad, Mysuru, Kalaburagi and Mangaluru, leading to broader statewide prosperity.

Professional, indepth training on advanced concepts of cybersecurity for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) was conducted at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi from May 812, 2023. Read More For continuing, Please agree our Terms & Conditions and acknowledge our Privacy Policy.

Nasscom Foundation’s Women Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Program supported by Google.org has reached more than 1,00,000 rural women to support them in pursuing their entrepreneurial aspirations. The program has covered 18 districts, spread across six states including Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, and Rajasthan.

The NCRF will be a living document to be constantly updated to reflect new threats and technologies. Organizations can use the NCRF to improve their cybersecurity posture, reduce their risk of a data breach or any cybersecurity incident, ensure compliance with regulations, increase confidence with customers and enhance operational efficiency.

This decision was a result of an interactive consultation with industry stakeholders and top executive from nearly three dozen platforms and industry heads such as Flipkart, Zomato, Amazon, Meta, Google, etc. and the Retailers Association of India, NASSCOM, ONDC and Khaitan & Co. that took place in Mumbai on 13 June.

Lt Gen (Retd) Rajesh Pant, the national cyber security coordinator, said on Monday that the National Cyber Security Reference Framework (NCRF) 2023 has been approved and will be placed in public domain.

Over the years, India moved up the value chain, he said. But it can’t take its comparative advantage for granted. India has roughly 1,600 of the centers, more than 40% of the number worldwide, according to Nasscom, a trade body for the country s technology industry.

The CyberArk 2023 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report details how these issues have the potential to result in a compounding of cyber debt : where investment in digital and cloud initiatives outpaces cybersecurity spend, creating a rapidly expanding and unsecured identitycentric attack surface.