Union Finance and Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday stressed the need to have tech-savvy forces to protect digital infrastructure, such as banks and stock markets, amid misuse of technology to disrupt these systems. He also urged the Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) to ensure that academics keep pace with the rapidly growing technology that becomes obsolete every two years.
Praising the RRU for closing an important gap in national security training and development, he said, “For now, it is important for us to see the new challenges facing the country’s security, not just at the borders today. Technology, as it is available to us to increase productivity, is open to abuse by other vested interests or dark forces… who abuse their skills and the digital world to threaten our many inclusions of our digital payment platforms or even. it is the digital environments in which many of our institutions operate, be it stock markets, banks or payment institutions, whether those are those that work with your daily e-marketing services or those that use download platform services. your cabs”.
He was speaking at the fourth RRU conference in rural Gandhinagar where students, along with many police officers, soldiers and soldiers received their degrees.
About the rapid evolution of technology, Sitharaman said, “What was technology two years ago is outdated today. You have new technologies that are changing so the training you provide will need to be constantly improving and ensuring that your people are university trained people at the forefront, whether it is looking at secure physical assets. , or digital assets protected by the tools you use… Your training will be necessary to constantly improve yourself to be ahead of the curve, ahead of criminals to protect us as people and ourselves. property”.
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