India will be short of 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs by year-end

According to a study by job portal Indeed, cybersecurity jobs saw a jump of 6 per cent in May 2020, just when Covid-19 started impacting IT

India is in dire need of cybersecurity professionals. With several recent incidents of data breach, India’s cybersecurity jou­r­ney so far proves this demand. But is the country ready to meet this demand and is it preparing a cybersecurity workforce for the unforeseen cyber future?

A report titled “India Cybersecurity Services Land­scape” by Nasscom-Data Secu­rity Council of India (DSCI) pred­icts that the Indian cy­b­er­security services industry would grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 21 per cent to touch $13.6 billion by 2025. And by 2022, the industry, which gen­erated a cumulative revenue of about $4.3 billion in