Department of I.T. organized an Expert Talk on “Cyber Security” in association with CSI Student Branch @ ITS, Ghaziabad on Tuesday, 31st January 2017 for MCA-IV Semester Students. Mr. Balaji Venketshwar, Consultant PWC, Former Vice President, Bank of America was the resource person for this session. The objective of this Talk was to make students aware about many cyber threats and solutions available.

While delivering his welcome address, Director-IT, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey said that Department of IT always provide many opportunities to their students where they can update their knowledge and bridge the gap between industry and academia.

Chairperson-MCA, Prof. Puja Dhar said that cyber security is a top concern in the IT industry today and students are privileged to listen to Sh. Balaji where they can know the various career opportunities available in the market

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January
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2017
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While addressing the students, Sh. Bala ji discussed about many cyber security threats to information system like 
• Vulnerable web applications
• Being overall security “aware”
• Failure to encrypt PCs and sensitive data
• Hacking of systems

He also advised students to do more coding and improve coding skills, start writing your own codes and don’t be dependent on tools, so that it will help you to find your own bugs in the code. He also advised students to prepare themselves for ethical hacking and also try their hands in cyber security. He also mentioned various career opportunities in cyber security area. Students also asked many queries related to the cyber security and cleared their doubts regarding to the ethical hacking.

Sh. Balaji Venketshewar also had an interactive session with faculties, where he advised faculty members to allow students to work on new and real life problem based projects and give emphasis on the project development done by students.

The session was followed by the lunch with all faculty members. Overall it was an interactive and new learning session for students.