As the digital revolution continues at a fast pace in India, its dark side is also showing up in the form of cyber threats like malware, bugs and phishing. Till date, in India, 26,000 websites have been defaced and 91 lakh infected systems have been detected. Last year, over 3 million debit cards got hacked in India.

There is an urgent need of cyber warriors to tackle the ever increasing cyber crimes. A cyber warrior is basically a security engineer who uses high-technology skills to understand, anticipate and preempt various kinds of cyber threats.

The Indian government is taking steps to redesign the country's cyber security system. Recently, it created Computer Emergency Response Teams to check cyber security threats in the power sector

All utilities have also been asked to start an information security management system in the organisation which would be headed by a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In order to protect the integrity of defence systems, all three branches of the Indian Armed Forces have been equipped with an elite cadre of cyber warriors.

In Coimbatore, Amrita Technology Business Incubator (TBI) have joined hands with Amrita Center for Cyber Security Systems and Networks (ACSN) to establish the first startup hub in India that focuses only on cyber security.

The Cyber Security Hub will bring together research, funding and industry on the same platform to promote indigenous product development in the areas of mobile, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, malware analysis, digital forensics and cryptography. It will also provide cyber security training to promising youngsters.