Our Work
Building cyber, AI and quantum readiness
A profession graded by competence, bound by ethics, verifiable anywhere, ready for the AI and quantum era.
Led by the Cybersecurity & AI Initiative, an ISAC Foundation centre. 4 commitments for 2030.
The problem and who we serve
Certificates are plentiful; trust is not. We empanel professionals through examination, range assessment and a revocable code of ethics, and build the ladder from club to campus to chapter.
- Beneficiaries
- Students, working professionals, employers
- Geography
- India, the Gulf and South-East Asia
News and events
Where they meet
No upcoming events from this Initiative.
The Initiative driving this outcome: Cybersecurity & AI Initiative
The Cybersecurity & AI Initiative is the ISAC Foundation centre responsible for this outcome.
A safer world begins with people we can trust. Building a global community of ethical, skilled, and independently verified cyber defenders.
Departments
The Cybersecurity & AI Initiative works through training, services, community, research and platforms.
Part of ISAC Foundation. Meet the Foundation's leadership
4 projects need funding to meet these commitments
Forward-Deployed Cyber AI Engineers
A first job, in the age of AI agents.
A paid 90-day apprenticeship: real, supervised deployments with startups, small businesses and companies, ending in empanelment on the National Security Database.
Our 2030 Commitment: 5,000 Forward-Deployed Cyber AI Engineers
NSD Campus Alliance
Open a path to cyber careers on every campus.
Campuses join at one flat fee for unlimited students, giving every learner a first step on the ladder from campus to profession.
Our 2030 Commitment: 500 Campuses on NSD Campus Alliance
Quantum-Ready Institutions
Get your organisation quantum-ready.
Quantum computers will one day break today's encryption. Organisations find where their cryptography lives, plan the move to quantum-safe, and earn the ISAC Quantum-Ready mark.
Our 2030 Commitment: 100 Quantum-Ready Institutions
SORALYNK
Essential cyber security for small businesses, in one subscription.
SORALYNK gives startups and small businesses an ever-updated pack of security tools, set up by certified installers, for less than ₹10 lakh a year, and sponsors can pay for it.
Our 2030 Commitment: 1,000 MSMEs Secured
Take part: training and services
Certifications (4)
- NSD empanelment: First Responder, Cadet, Falcon, Guardian, Scholar.
- NSD Scholar Program: Six-month techno-managerial programme with IIM Bangalore. The National Cyber Security Scholar Program course
- Security Product Management: Executive programme.
- Quantum-safe track
Services (3)
- Curriculum design: For institutions joining Campus Alliance.
- Workforce assessment: For employers.
- PQC readiness assessment
Take part: community
Also in this community: Cyber Club (college) · NSD Chapters · Cyber Kushti
Platforms you can use now
- National Security Database®: The Global Registry behind this outcome: professionals graded, empanelled and verifiable by anyone.
- Cyberange: Assessment range, 750+ scenarios, used for Cadet and Falcon grades.
Research: the standards, reports and open source behind this work
- Empanelment standard
- Code of Ethics (with Ethics and Governance)
- State of the profession report: Annual.
- PQC standard
- Open source: competency spec
- Open source: challenge sets
- Open source: SORALYNK stack
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