IoT & Cyber Security including Blockchain are specialized fields of Information Technology (IT) which is considered as a sub stream in Computer Science and Engineering.
In today’s world everything is connected to the Internet for ease of access, to monitor and control the devices across the globe. This provides an opportunity to automate different task and move all the communicating devices to be communicated through Internet. IoT is the most important technology for 21st century and it connects the device from home to industry, device to device or human to device. The various industry which uses IoT are Manufacturing, Automotive, Transportation and Logistics, Retail, Public Sector, Health Care, Agriculture.
The general safety across all industry is the requirement of securing these devices and its network. To secure the data generated due to communication between the devices, device to humans, and personal information are in demand. Cyber Security courses aims to equip the students with the knowledge and skills required to defend your data, devices, and personal information from the attacker. This course provides a wide variety of opportunity in IT sector and in other manufacturing and production industries.
As all devices are connected to Internet, the data generated is very huge. The data need to be accessed from the storage securely and should be available for access to the authorized users, the Blockchain provides this flexibility. Blockchain is a distributed ledger, in this system it records the information in such a way that it is impossible to change, hack or cheat the system. Blockchain is used in various sectors like Financial Transaction, Lending, Real estate, Secured Personal Information, Voting Secured Health care system, Supply chain management, Secured IoT.
With this introduction to the course, I Dr Shashikala, Professor and Head, Welcomes all of you to the Department of IoT & Cyber Security including Blockchain.