Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow is conducting the first Cyber Threat Seminar cum Hackathon for Indian Army. The Hackathon is extended over three months and will go live on the Raising Day of MCTE on October 01, 2021.
Speaking to the media, Lt Gen M U Nair, Commandant MCTE said that the participation will be open across the country to engineering students as also to Army, Air Force and Navy personnel. It is expected that at least 30,000 people will participate in the same in an online mode. There will be a dedicated web portal sainya-ranakshetram.in, which will allow for registration as also tracking the conduct of the event in real time.
Conducted over three stages, the levels of training will keep increasing through each stage. The final level will also see participants competing with each other in the fields of secure coding and exploitation of software defined radios. Highlight of the event culmination would be the teams competing with each other in cyber space with real and simulated threats.
The event will also host a number of seminars, expert talks and conclaves, to focus on emerging cyber threats in the military domain and their methods of mitigation. The event is being organised in collaboration with Rashtriya Raksha University.
