How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Fend Off

 How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Fend Off Cyberattacks 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the ability of technology to think and act like a human and is being utilized to help fight off potential cyberattacks. Employing AI and machine learning to detect vulnerabilities significantly enhances human capabilities, as AI can analyze and report millions of cyberthreats in the time it might take a person to do the same. 

AI can get “smarter” and “learn;” as an AI algorithm continues to search and monitor data, it can improve its understanding of diverse types of potential attacks. 

According to a study by PwC and Data Security Council titled "Cyber Security India Market: What lies beneath", Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will be powering the 'cyber war rooms' in organisations to help them protect from increasing cyberattacks, as well as detect, predict and respond to the same. 

WHAT IS A CYBERATTACK? 

You have heard a lot about cyberattacks and data breaches on the news lately, but what exactly is a cyberattack and why is it important to protect our data? 

“In short, a cyberattack is a deliberate and often targeted attempt to mount an action via or against digital technology,” says IEEE Senior Member Steven Furnell. “In practice, cyberattacks can take many forms, but we tend to most commonly associate things like hacking and malware, and perhaps phishing. However, there is a far broader range of labels that can be used to reflect the specific approaches and motivations that may be involved.”

“After the attack, the computer or the network will be destroyed, exposed, modified or lose some functions,” adds IEEE Senior Member Guangjie Han. “And your personal information or important data will be acquired by someone else without authorization. Consider the potential benefit behind the data — that’s why these attacks exist.” 

Junior hackers might only have an interest in stealing money, acquiring personal data or merely for the joy of hurting others. More senior hackers have the potential to breach entire companies or governments. 

HOW AI PRIORITIZES SECURITY NEEDS 

Once AI has effectively identified the potential risks and threats, the next step is to prioritize what gets addressed and in what order. 

“Since AI-based detection systems usually work with uncertainty, they are useful not only to raise alerts when something seems to be wrong but also to give a score on how close a given event is from a cyberattack,” says IEEE Member Marcos Simplicio. “Events with higher scores can then be prioritized accordingly. For example, above a certain score, automated measures may be taken to stop the highly probable attack without any human intervention. Events with a lower score can then be forwarded to administrators for further analysis, and some events with low scores may be simply logged without any additional action, since handling them may not be worth the effort.” 

OTHER METHODS OF STOPPING CYBERATTACKS 

AI and machine learning are not the only mechanisms used to prevent and fight off cyberattacks. A wide range of robust technologies protect our systems and help fend off severe breaches. 

IEEE Senior Member Aiyappan Pillai explains that in addition to AI, cryptography, emerging quantum cryptography, analytics, IoT security, blockchain security and hardware authentication technologies are also helping technologists keep our digital infrastructure secure. 

Lastly, another way to prevent cyberattacks is continuing to educate users to stay away from suspicious activity. “It is important to remember that security is largely a matter related to processes and behaviors and therefore administrative, education and awareness processes play a key role in any well-designed security strategy,” stresses IEEE Senior Member Raul Coucher. 

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Flipkart forges academic collaboration with

Flipkart forges academic collaboration with IIT Patna

● Signs MoU for Joint Research in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

Flipkart, India’s homegrown ecommerce marketplace has announced an MoU with IIT Patna, India’s leading science, engineering and technology institute. The MoU is a step to strengthen Flipkart’s academic collaboration which it has been inculcating for past 5 years now. The MoU with IIT Patna will help create industry focused applied research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML).

  

As a part of this MoU, IIT Patna will undertake a number of programs such as joint research activities, writing research papers, organizing seminars, internship / mentorship opportunities to name a few. The academic collaboration is expected to bring real world industry exposure to students and scholars of IIT Patna, and to provide an opportunity to the faculty member(s) to work closely with Flipkart on research projects. Flipkart expects to foster an environment of collaboration in the areas of automation, AI, NLP and ML and help build critical national capabilities. 

Said Mayur Datar, Chief Data Scientist Flipkart, “Academic collaborations are a great way to forge long term relationships between industry and academia, to help accelerate the translation of research into new projects and help drive ecosystem benefits which could lead to economic growth. The aim behind this collaboration is to create industry-focused applied research which could help reach ecommerce to more consumers and sellers alike. With this MoU, we aim to establish deeper academia collaborations which could help students and the academia to leverage our data and platform knowledge to work on India specific e-commerce challenges, in addition to publishing research papers.”   

Asif Ekbal, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, said, “We are very pleased to have this MoU with Flipkart, which has churned out many India specific and India first innovations to solve for adoption of ecommerce in India. The​ research is particularly aimed at developing robust machine translation techniques for translating the large amount of user reviews written in English to the Indian vernacular languages, and at the same time will ensure that the translation process should preserve the domain knowledge (e.g. sentiment, emotion, gender traits etc), which is extremely crucial for the translation service providers (TSPs) that make use of machine translation (MT) in production. Through this initial collaboration, we expect to come up with at least two high-quality publications in the relevant foras, and create a baseline translation workflow in the product review domains. This academic collaboration is expected to bring real world industry exposure to the students and scholars of IIT Patna, and at the same time will provide an opportunity to the faculty member(s) to work closely with Flipkart on research projects.”  

Flipkart is vested in long-term advancement of universities in India through impactful academic research aligned to industry needs. Flipkart works closely with academia through some of the leading institutes including Indian Institute of Science (IISC), IIT (Kharagpur, Bombay and Kanpur), IIM (Ahmedabad and Kolkata)  and a few foreign universities like Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, San Diego to develop technologies such as fashion recommendation, query understanding, attribute extraction, demand planning, product categorization, review helpfulness, supply chain management (e.g., warehouse storage allocation), fraud detection and next basket prediction. It has resulted in several research papers in world-class conferences in areas like information retrieval and knowledge discovery.  

SP Robotic Works Launches TechLadder for

SP Robotic Works Launches TechLadder for professionals; Expands into Corporate workforce upskilling

• Through Tech Ladder, SP Robotic Work offers certified courses on Machine Learning and VR/AR for graduates and working professionals
• Courses are designed to make the learner equipped with practical knowledge and placement recommendations with SPRW’s partner companies

SP Robotic Works, India’s leading AI-assisted learning platform for Robotics and coding today announced the launch of their newest course offering, TechLadder for graduates and professionals to be best equipped for opportunities in the technology sector. The newly introduced courses are on Machine Learning (ML) and Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality (VR/AR).

The certification courses are designed for working professionals and young aspirants to gain practical knowledge in the most lucrative technology skill sets. Machine Learning has been at the core of SP Robotic Works for the last eight years with more than 100,000 benefitting from the program. TechLadder offers a complete booster for an individual to enter and sustain opportunities in Machine Learning & AI and the booming gaming industry with skill sets in VR/AR. The AR/VR course, on the other hand, is authorised and certified by Unity Software, the global leaders in the segment.

TechLadder Courses are designed with a high focus on practical understanding of concepts through direct experiments and implementations. The learner will be certified upon submission of a practical project at the end of the course, thereby making them eligible for placement opportunities directly referred by SPRW to their partner companies like Sage IT. The courses under TechLadder will also be taught using AI-powered smart teachers, programmed to adapt to every individual student's learning needs. Moreover, there are industry experts available to the learner for one-to-one sessions, in case of any queries beyond the program.

Speaking on the occasion of the launch, Aravind Kashyap, CEO of Sage IT said that; "As I see today the trends impacting humanity are Automation, Data and Intelligence.  Sage IT Inc being a leading service provider in the Cognitive Automation space by combining AI, ML, AR/VR is always on the look out for talent and expertise in these segments. Platforms like SPRW TechLadder can be an ideal program to identify and nurture next generation of great minds to serve the IT industry”

While commenting on the new launch, Sneha Priya CEO and co-founder and Pranavan S, CTO and Co-founder of SP Robotic Works said that; “Practical knowledge fuels employability as well as entrepreneurship. While degrees are important to understand concepts and principles, with TechLadder we wish to create a huge boost to the employability potential of young aspirants along with giving an opportunity to early-stage professions to stay relevant with continuous upskilling and reskilling. With the certification from an industry leader of Robotics and Technology like SPRW, TechLadder will be a value add to many aspirant careers”.

Established in 2012, SP Robotics is co-founded by Sneha Priya and Pranavan Santhanakrishnan, who are widely considered as pioneers in Robotics application and education. The digital learning platform aims to democratise STEM learning through providing a holistic education for students in Robotics, Coding, IoT, A.I., Drone and AR/VR. The franchising arm of the company, SP Robotics Maker Lab has 80+ Ai-powered smart class centres across 30 cities in India. With the proven methodology of imparting technical education more than 1 Lakh+ learners, SPRW is gearing up to venture into corporate upskilling and certification through TechLadder

தேசிய மேம்பட்ட கணினி திட்டத்தில் (National Supercomputing Mission)

தேசிய மேம்பட்ட கணினி திட்டத்தில் (National Supercomputing Mission) 
இணைகிறது திருச்சி தேசிய தொழில்நுட்பக்கழகம்: கணினியானது விரைவில் 
நிறுவப்படும் எனத் தகவல்

இந்திய அரசின் தேசிய மேம்பட்ட கணினி திட்டத்தில் திருச்சி தேசிய 
தொழிநுட்பக்கழகம் இணைந்துள்ளது. இந்த அமைப்பு கணக்கீட்டுச் 
சிக்கல்கல்களைத் தீர்க்க தொழில்நுட்பக்கல்லூரிகளுக்கு தொழில்நுட்ப 
ரீதியில் உதவுகிறது. இந்த அமைப்பிற்கு கல்லூரியின் சார்பாக வழங்கப்பட்ட 
முன்மொழிதலின் அடிப்படையிலும், இந்திய அரசின் அறிவியல் மற்றும் 
தொழில்நுட்பத் துறை மற்றும் மின்னணு மற்றும் தகவல் தொழில்நுட்பத்துறையில் 
ஒப்புதலின் பேரில் ரூபாய் 17.11 கோடி மதிப்பிலான மேம்பட்ட கணினியானது 
புனே CDAC அமைப்பின் சார்பில் 2 கோடி செலவில் கல்லூரியில் 
நிறுவப்படவுள்ளது. 70:30 என்ற விகிதத்தில் CPU மற்றும் GPU கொண்டுள்ள 
இக்கணினியாது, செயற்கை நுண்ணறிவு மற்றும் ஆழ்நிலை கற்றல் துறைகள் 
வளர்ந்து வரும் இக்காலகட்டத்தில் மாணவர்களுக்கும் பேராசிரியர்களுக்கும் 
ஆராய்ச்சிகளை மேற்கொள்ளப் பேருதவியாக இருக்கும் என எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது.

இதன்மூலம் மேம்பட்ட கணினி நிறுவப்படும் முதல் தேசிய தொழில்நுட்பக்கழகம் 
என்ற பெருமையைத் திருச்சி தேசிய தொழில்நுட்பக்கழகம் பெற்றுள்ளது. 
இத்திட்டத்தைச் செயல்படுத்த பெரும்பங்காற்றிய கணினித் துறையின் தலைவர் 
டாக்டர் ராம்கல்யான் தலைமையிலான அணி பற்றும் செயற்குழு உறுப்பினர்களான 
கல்லூரி முதன்மையாளர் (ஆராய்ச்சி மற்றும் ஆலோசனை) டாக்டர். உமாபதி 
மற்றும் கணினி அறிவியல் மற்றும் பொறியியல் துறைத்தலைவர் டாக்டர். 
ராஜேஸ்வரி ஸ்ரீதர் ஆகியோருக்கு கல்லூரி இயக்குனர் டாக்டர். மினி ஷாஜி 
தாமஸ் அவர்கள் வாழ்த்துக்களைத் தெரிவித்தார். சமீபத்தில் பிரதமரின் 
புத்தாய்வுத் திட்டத்தில் (PMRF) இணைந்த முதல் தேசிய தொழில்நுட்பக்கழகம் 
என்ற பெருமையையும் திருச்சி தேசிய தொழில்நுட்பக்கழகம் பெற்றது 
குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

NIT, Tiruchirapalli to be part of National Super Computing Mission

NIT, Tiruchirapalli to be part of

National Super Computing Mission (NSM)

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli has been inducted to be part of the National Super Computing Mission (NSM), of the Government of India. The objective of the NSM is to empower technology institutions with high-performance computing capabilities that can be used for solving computationally intensive problems. Based on the proposal submitted by the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli to the NSM - Infrastructure team, the institution has been sanctioned Super Computer worth Rs.17.11 crores by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY). The supercomputer involving CPU and GPU at a ratio of 70:30 will be installed at the Institute by CDAC, Pune, soon, with an additional installation cost of about 2 crores. 

With the development of societal projects involving Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Deep learning on the rise, the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli is happy to announce the sanction of the Super Computer at the appropriate time. The facility will be helpful to the research scholars and faculty who are 
working on projects involving high-end computing for carrying out various research and sponsored projects.

NIT Tiruchirappalli is one of the Prime Ministers Research Fellow (PMRF) awarding Institution from this year, the only NIT to achieve this honour, being in the top 25 overall NIRF ranking in 2019, as announced by MHRD recently. The Super Computing Facility, also the first NIT to host, will attract excellent PMRF and other Research 
scholars to the Institute and will be a boom to the Faculty members.Dr. Mini Shaji Thomas, Director of the Institute expressed her happiness at the possible exponential increase in research output, 
being part of the NSM, with a supercomputing facility and with PMRF fellows coming in. She congratulated the team led by Dr Ramakalyan, HOD Computer Support Group and the team which submitted the proposal 
and the implementing team, with Dr M. Umapathy Dean R&C and Dr Rajeswari Sridhar, HOD CSE leading the efforts.

Tata Steel enables youth to be

Tata Steel enables youth to be future ready

~ 3.6 lakh+ youth leverage e-learning courses offered by the Company to upskill and upgrade their knowledge during the lockdown ~

In view of the unprecedented COVID-19 situation and the ensuing lockdown, Tata Steel, as a responsible corporate, introduced an e-learning initiative to help students and working professionals leverage the time available during the lockdown to upskill and upgrade their knowledge on various relevant topics.

A total of 27 e-learning courses from across disciplines were availed as part of the initiative. While the portal hosting the e-learning modules witnessed a traffic of over 3.6 lakh users, more than 8 lakh course licenses were issued.

Prakash Singh, Chief, Capability Development, Tata Steel said: “The current COVID-19 situation offers a window of opportunity to young students and professionals to groom themselves by enhancing their knowledge and skills. It is in this context that we introduced the e-learning initiative to enable an ecosystem of learning and development which will strengthen the process of creating a skilled and competent workforce. We are happy to have received an overwhelming response to this initiative and will continue with our pursuit to enable young India to be future ready.”

The Capability Development department, the learning & development wing of Tata Steel, curated these e-learning courses to enable the youth become industry and future ready. The courses were available at a notional cost of Rupee one per course. The e-learning courses range from various technical disciplines such as Mechanical, Electrical and Metallurgy to current Industry trends such as Industry 4.0, Total Quality Management, and Machine Learning etc. In addition, a slew of learning sessions through smart class and webinars on pertinent technical and behavioural topics were also made available.