The Hindu Business Line : CIITE chooses BindView to develop IT security curriculum

IT security compliance solutions provider BindView Corporation has announced today that it has been selected by the Consortium for Indian Information Technology Education (CIITE) to develop a video-based IT curriculum to train the Consortium's 3.5 million students over the next three years.

CIITE's three-year security compliance training programme, codenamed "ProjectGalaxy II", will devote $40 million towards the project.

Working with CIITE, a national agency that introduced modern methods of IT education to member institutions based in India, BindView has developed a video-based training curriculum and course work on Internet security, vulnerability management and regulatory compliance best practices for students at 6,500 different institutions across 18,000 locations throughout India.

In addition to classroom instruction, its products would be used for securing individual IT infrastructures of these institutions, which in aggregate includes more than 80,000 servers and 500,000 desktops, the President and Chief Operating Officer of BindView, Mr Arshad Matin, has said.

He said BindView has also developed an advanced Internet security compliance curriculum. CIITE anticipates 800,000 of these students will enrol in advanced certification coursework over the next two years, upon completion of the basic training programme.

After attending the CIITE/BindView training programme, members can appear for Internet Security certification exams, he said. Mr Matin pointed out that "India is now a leading destination for outsourced IT services and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and there is an urgent need for training on IT security and compliance of best practices to meet the growing demand."

Organisations like CIITE are looking for proven IT security compliance methodologies like BindView's to create a best practices framework for large-scale training and professional development that Indian software and services companies are bringing to their US and European IT and BPO customers.

This transaction galvanizes BindView's position as a market leader. However, he noted that while the contract value would not have a significant impact on the security compliance throughout our country.

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