Citing a quote of one of the speakers at the recently concluded Umagine, a technology and innovation summit hosted by the Tamil Nadu government, Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan said, “If you are going to be in cyber security, you will not be unemployed for the next 40-50 years.”
The Minister was addressing a conclave “ PALS-ECU Cyber Edge 2024” at the IIT-Madras, which was organised by PALS, an IIT Alumni Initiative, in association with Edith Cowan University, Australia. Noting that there is going to be massive job growth in this field, the Minister said, “The need for cyber security is just going to scale so rapidly and if we did not believe it yesterday’s (March 5, 2024) attack on Facebook, and Instagram which basically crippled the platforms are an immediate validator of the extensive need.”
The Minister further said, “For us as government, we need more and more specialists here in India, here in Tamil Nadu and overall for the world…. the threat is only going to keep increasing.” “And with the advent of AI, there will be new shapes of threats and new forms of threats, he added.
