"KAVACH-2023: AICTE set to host Cyber Security Domain Hackathon to tackle prevailing challenges"
"In a remarkable endeavor, New Delhi gears up for KAVACH 2023, an unparalleled national hackathon. The Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, in collaboration with AICTE, Bureau of Police Research and Development, and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre under the Ministry of Home Affairs, orchestrates this distinctive event. Its pioneering objective revolves around discovering ingenious concepts and technological remedies to conquer the intricate predicaments that both law enforcement agencies and everyday citizens confront within the domain of cyber security. An astounding array of over 100 teams stands ready to partake in this intellectual voyage.
Expressing his views, Shri Balaji Srivastava, DG of BPR&D, remarked, "KAVACH 2023 presents an exceptional avenue to devise inventive resolutions for the cyber security challenges plaguing today's netizens. Participants embarking on this Hackathon's journey delve into realms of creativity, collaboration, and effective troubleshooting. I anticipate contenders capitalizing on this extraordinary occasion to exhibit their proficiencies and showcase their concepts. This stands as your moment to pioneer, cooperate, and influence digital security for a safer future.""
With innovation as his hallmark, Chairman Prof. T G Sitharam of AICTE emphasized the profound importance of this occasion. He stated, "KAVACH-2023 beckons upon India's ingenious minds to conceive novel ideas and frameworks within the realm of cyber security, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, automation, big data, and cloud computing."
Dr. Abhay Jere, Vice Chairman of AICTE, expressed, "This exceptional opportunity extends a warm invitation to students and startups within the higher education institutions of India, encouraging them to present their inventive ideas and concepts addressing various problem statements."
As the curtains ascend on the Grand Finale, participants stand ready to reveal their concepts, showcasing their technical feasibility and practical relevance. Chairman Prof. T G Sitharam and Vice Chairman Dr. Abhay Jere will grace the event with their presence, contributing their expert insights to this monumental gathering."
As a stunning demonstration of synchronized collaboration across the country, the hackathon will expand to five strategic hubs: IES College of Technology Bhopal, AMC Engineering College Bangalore, Centurion University of Technology and Management Bhubaneswar, Pillai College of Engineering New Panvel and GL Institute of Technology. and management enjoy Greater Noida.
This captivating event presents an assorted collection of 20 intricate problem statements embedded in the realm of cyber security. It calls upon imaginative minds to compete for supremacy by presenting their ingenious solutions. Among the intriguing challenges lie a futuristic women's safety application, an obscenity-blocking solution, an advanced system for detecting fake news, a phishing-detection remedy, state-of-the-art ANPR and FRS solutions, a deep web crawler, a system for alerting against spam, a tool for analyzing malware, an advanced CCTV analytics remedy, a RAM dump collection utility, a citizen safety app focused on cybercrime prevention, a fund trail tracking tool, a mechanism for supervising on-ground personnel, a decryption tool for chat messengers, a detector for mesh network applications, an identification solution for LoRa usage, a hardware forensic suite, a plug-and-play system security auditing tool, a mechanism for scrutinizing portable electronic device hardware, and an indigenous cryptocurrency investigation solution.