About CySecK

The Centre of Excellence for Cybersecurity – Karnataka (CySecK) is a flagship initiative of the Department of Electronics, Information Technology & Biotechnology (IT & BT), Government of Karnataka, established in 2019 to strengthen Karnataka’s cybersecurity ecosystem. Anchored at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, CySecK serves as a collaborative platform connecting government, academia, industry, startups, and cybersecurity professionals to build a secure and resilient digital future.

Key Focus Areas

1. Skill Development
. Cybersecurity Finishing School Programs
. Faculty Development Programs (FDPs)
. Student Bootcamps and Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions
. Massive Open Online Courses
. Community Lab (Cyber Range)

2. Industry & Startups
. H.A.C.K. Startup Accelerator
. Mentorship from industry experts
. Investors connect programs
. Market access and ecosystem partnerships

3. Research & Industry Collaboration
. State-of-the-art hardware security research infrastructure for the development and evaluation of secure systems.
. Fault injection testing systems, including advanced voltage, clock, and laser-based techniques to simulate and analyse real-world attack scenarios.
. FPGA-based high-performance hardware platforms to test and prototype resilient hardware security solutions.
. High-precision side-channel analysis setups for power and electromagnetic vulnerability assessment.

4. Government Capacity Building
. Cybersecurity awareness and training for government departments
. Policy support and advisory
. Cyber resilience workshops

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CYFIRMA is a global leader in preemptive external threat landscape management, enabling organizations to predict and prevent cyberattacks through its AI-powered intelligence platform. By integrating nine pillars of external threat management including Attack Surface Discovery, Vulnerability Intelligence, Brand & Digital Risk Management, Third-Party Risk, Situational Awareness, Predictive Threat Intelligence, Threat-Adaptive Awareness, and Sector-Tailored Deception Intelligence, CYFIRMA shifts cybersecurity from reactive to predictive. The platform delivers early warnings, personalized insights, and actionable intelligence from a hacker’s perspective, helping reduce cyber risk and costs through threat prioritization, contextual decision-making, improved visibility, and stronger operational resilience. CYFIRMA serves Fortune 500 companies and national agencies and is headquartered in Singapore with offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA.

Thales is a global leader in cybersecurity, helping businesses, governments, and the most trusted organizations in the world protect critical applications, sensitive data, identities, and software anywhere, at scale — with the highest ROI. With more than 30,000 customers, including 58% of the Fortune Global 500, our solutions are deployed in 148 countries around the world.  Through our innovative services and integrated platforms, Thales helps customers achieve better visibility of risks, defend against cyber threats, close compliance gaps, and deliver trusted digital experiences for billions of consumers every day.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent technology solutions as a service.  With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.

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Tenable® is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business risk for more than 44,000 customers around the globe. Learn more at tenable.com.

A10 Networks provides security and infrastructure solutions for on-premises, hybrid cloud, and edge-cloud environments. Our 7000+ customers span global large enterprises and communications, cloud and web service providers who must ensure business-critical applications and networks are secure, available, and efficient.

Founded in 2004, A10 Networks is based in San Jose, Calif. and serves customers globally. For more information, visit A10networks.com and follow us at A10Networks.

CyCraft Technology is a Taiwan-listed cybersecurity company on a single mission: built in Taiwan, powered by AI, protecting the world. Founded in 2017 with operations in Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore, CyCraft protects government, financial, and semiconductor customers. CyCraft is named in the OWASP AI Security Solutions Landscape and included as a Sample Vendor in Gartner emerging technology research.

Data Resolve is a focused Data Security and Insider Threat Management company with 18+ years experience providing Data Security & Posture Management (DSPM) using cutting edge, advanced, AI/ML techniques to protect, prevent and predict threats to your data anywhere and comply to standards like DPDP Act, SBI, RBI-CSF etc..

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Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

Nife is a multi-cloud and edge infrastructure platform that enables organizations to deploy, manage, and scale applications seamlessly across cloud, edge, and private environments from a unified control plane. The platform simplifies DevOps, optimizes cloud costs, and accelerates application deployment with built-in orchestration and AI-driven operations.

LayerGrid is an AI security platform for organizations running agents, MCP servers, and tool-calling systems in production. It builds a Security Context Graph across agents, tools, data, and trust boundaries, then reasons about whether combinations of individually sanctioned access are dangerous, not just whether each component passed review on its own.

Securacy AI is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform focused on automating security operations, continuous threat detection, vulnerability management, and compliance monitoring. It enables enterprises to strengthen their cyber resilience through intelligent security analytics and automated risk management.

Trench Security is an AI-native SecOps platform that unifies security data, detects threats, and automates incident response through an agentic operating system. Designed for modern security teams, it integrates with existing security tools to deliver actionable insights and streamline security operations with minimal manual effort.

XTEN Networks develops advanced cybersecurity and networking solutions to help organizations build secure, resilient, and high-performance digital infrastructure. The company focuses on network security, secure connectivity, threat management, and enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions for businesses and critical infrastructure.

YellowSense Technologies is a Bengaluru-based deep-tech company leveraging Artificial Intelligence to build solutions for cybersecurity, fraud detection, industrial fault detection, enterprise intelligence, and secure data processing. Its AI-powered platforms help organizations enhance security, operational efficiency, and digital trust across industries.

NetApp is an intelligent data infrastructure company which specializes in enterprise-grade data storage, hybrid cloud data management, and cloud operations, helping organizations move, secure, and govern their data across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

Everpure (NYSE: P) allows organizations to take control of their data with an industry-leading, ever-evolving storage and data management platform. We help companies unleash the power of their data by ensuring it is accessible, intelligent, and ready to perform in the AI era. We make data management effortless while simultaneously scaling performance and significantly reducing energy consumption. With one of the highest Net Promoter Scores for over a decade, Everpure is the choice of the world’s most innovative organizations. For more information, visit www.everpuredata.com