Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher education Held a first of its kind hackathon in cryptography in partnership with ThriveDX. GET SET HACK by RISE saw over 22 thousand participants. Sarthak Jain from Delhi, 4th year B.Tech student studying Computer Science from GGSIPU bagged the first prize, followed by Arnab Sen, 4th year CS student from Kolkata, IIEST, Shibpur stood second. Manish Kumar, Vaibhavi Palia and Deepanshu Arya joined as the top five winners.
Top five winners of GET SET HACK by RISE were awarded 100 percent placement offer along with full scholarship on Cyber Security Bootcamp PG course by RISE. Recruitments are driven by some of the biggest names in the corporate world, including Jiroh Labs, RiskPro, Grant Thornton, Digisler, Elliott Systems, Cryptowire, Allied Digital, Buddy AI, Analytica and Taylor & Francis Group.
In addition, the top 100 winners gain an exciting prize pool consisting of placement opportunities, internship opportunities and numerous paid scholarships, and were awarded by Sagi Icher, Head of Economic and Trade Mission to Israel and Roy Zur, CEO of ThriveDX SaaS .
Apart from the top five rankers getting direct placement opportunities, rank holders 6-25 got interview opportunities with 50 percent paid scholarship, 26-50 rank winners also got internship opportunities with 50 percent paid scholarship, while Next 51-100 rank holders were awarded 35 percent paid scholarship on Cyber Security Bootcamp PG course by RISE.
Highlighting the importance of cyber security in today’s era, Israel’s Head of Economic and Trade Mission Sagi Icher commented, “As per our estimates, the Indian market currently requires over 1 million cyber security experts, and This difference is struggling. To find a way to bridge myself. This shows how weak the digital ecosystem in the country is. And that’s why I believe that the efforts that companies like ThriveDX and RISE are making are so important because they can take people with basically zero knowledge in cyber security and give them a platform with their dedicated and specialized training programs. can be brought up to the level of an expert. ,
“It is great to see talented people coming together to tackle one of the biggest challenges on earth using cyber-security technologies. This is an area with a huge skill gap and is in high demand in both Indian and international markets. And hence it is a great career path to choose. At its core, the central objective of cyber security is to protect one’s country, government or organization from evil elements. Hence, cyber security as a field to protect the good against the bad. There’s a lot to talk about,” said Roy Zur, CEO of ThriveDX.
Addressing the ongoing success of the hackathon, Gaurav Bhatia, CEO, RISE said, “India alone will address the current talent crunch in the cyber-security sector by 2025 with around 3.5 million job vacancies and skills like application development, security, cloud Chances are. Security risk management, threat intelligence, data privacy and security, accounted for 43 percent. That is why we organized a hackathon to create awareness about cyber security as a lucrative career option. We are overwhelmed with the response we have received with over 22,000 participants, making GET SET HACK by RISE the largest hackathon of its kind in India. We thank all our partners who have made this a huge success.”
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