AICTE Presents KAVACH 2023: National Hackathon to Address Cybersecurity Challenges

AICTE Presents KAVACH 2023: National Hackathon to Address Cybersecurity Challenges

Last Updated Aug - 09 - 2023, 05:14 PM | Source : ET | Visitors : 53

KAVACH 2023 is a nationwide hackathon in collaboration with AICTE, the Ministry of Education, Bureau of Police Research

The stage is set for KAVACH 2023, a national hackathon organized jointly by the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, AICTE, Bureau of Police Research and Development, and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (Ministry of Home Affairs), to begin its journey. The program seeks to generate novel ideas and technology solutions to the cybersecurity concerns confronting law enforcement and regular citizens.

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The hackathon will be held at five strategic nodes: Bhopal's IES College of Technology, Bangalore's AMC Engineering College, Bhubaneswar's Centurion University of Technology and Management, New Panvel's Pillai College of Engineering, and Greater Noida's GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management.

The event will feature a diverse set of 20 problem statements, with students competing for the top spots by presenting their innovative answers. A new-age women's safety app, an obscenity blocker solution, an advanced fake news detection system, a phishing detection solution, cutting-edge ANPR and FRS solutions, a dark web crawler, a spam alert system, a malware analysis tool, a CCTV analytics solution, a RAM dump collection tool, a citizen safety app for protecting against cybercrime, and an indigenous cryptocurrency investigation tool are among the problem statements.

Participants will reveal their concepts in the finale, proving their technical viability and real-world application.

"Participants in this Hackathon are embarking on a journey of creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving," stated Balaji Srivastava, DG, BPR&D. It is their opportunity to create, contribute, and have an impact on digital security for a better tomorrow."

While emphasizing the significance of this event, AICTE chairman Prof TG Sitharam stated, "KAVACH-2023 challenges India's innovative minds to envision ideas and frameworks in the domain of cybersecurity, leveraging artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, automation, big data, and cloud computing."

Abhay Jere, vice-chairman of AICTE, added, "This unique opportunity welcomes higher institutional students and startups from India to present their innovative ideas and concepts for various problem statements."

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