India, July 18 -- Can government IT strategy and investments afford to take their eyes off cybersecurity rigour? Can this road be covered with IT tar that breaks into vendor patches and department siloes? Shivaling Salakki, Program Director, CySecK - Karnataka State's CoE in Cybersecurity answers, as well as questions, many unique what-ifs about government cybersecurity.

This is a CoE for cybersecurity. This centre was operationalised in 2019 and it is funded by the Government of Karnataka through Department of Electronics, IT. It is anchored within the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and supported by the Foundation for Science, Innovation and Development (FSID). Our core mandates are around building skills as well as cybe...