Empanelment as Indian Cyber Service

Background

Robust Cyber safe Digital Infra is fundamental need to ensure the safety, accessibility, and equitability of Cyberspace for citizens.

Indian digital landscape is one of the world’s largest populations of 148 Crores, 122 Cores telephone subscribers, including 118 Crores wireline, 100 Crores internet users including 99 Crores broadband user, as on August, 2025. And world’s second largest mobile base, world’s largest established 5G network, advancing for 6G, AI, Quantum etc.

In 2022–23, India’s digital economy world’s third largest is valued at about 12 % of National income, contributing $402 Bn. to GDP, expected to reach 20% by 2029.  India has world’s largest real time digital payment landscape with Rs 24.03 lakh Crore across 18.39 Bn. Transactions as on March 2025.

Advancements in AI, quantum, block chain, have contributed to a significant rise in internet-connected smart devices and appliances in the last five years, further increasing India’s digital surface.

India’s Cyber ecosystem has multiple agencies (CERT-In, I4C, MeitY, MHA, state LEAs, industry bodies such as DSCI and sector ISACs).

A single, trusted portal for an Indian Cyber Service as a cadre, program and a National Cyber professional community, can centralize training, personnel mobility, recruitment, policy guidance, and intelligence-safe collaboration. Reports and whitepapers on cyber capacity needs support this gap. 

Indian Cyber Service Empanelment Portal

Purpose

To establish a unified National Digital platform connecting India’s Cyber professionals, agencies, and Centres of Excellence, enabling secure collaboration, recruitment, and capacity-building across Government, industry, and academia.

Vision

To create a trusted, unified national platform that builds, connects and empowers India’s cyber workforce, enabling secure Digital Governance and resilient National Cyber posture.
 

Mission

• To centralize professional records, training, accreditation and career pathways for India’s cyber practitioners.

• To enable secure, role-based information sharing between Cyber stakeholders as a whole including law enforcement, industry and academia.

• To accelerate recruitment, deployment and upskilling for National Cyber roles while preserving data privacy and operational security.
   

Core objectives

1. Registry & Careers: Build a verified registry of cyber professionals and publish career pathways for core Cyber roles.

2. Training & Certification: Host/validate modular courses and facilitate at least 20,000 continuing education/awareness completions per

3. Secure Collaboration: Provide an ISO/IEC 27001-grade secure workspace for sharing threat advisories and coordination between CERT-In, I4C, State LEAs, and industry partners.

4. Recruitment & Mobilisation: Provide a centralised lateral-entry and deputation interface to fill specialised Cyber posts across all stakeholders

5. Policy & Research Hub: Collaborate with others or independent research to publish regularly threat trend reports, policy briefs and details of National and relevant International Cyber rules/regulations.

Core user personas

• All Cyber stakeholders including Government Cyber officers (Central & State), LEA investigators (I4C), CERT-In analysts.

• Industry SOC/CIRT leads and telecom/critical infra security officers.

• Academia / CoE faculty and students.

• Jobseekers / certified Cyber professionals.

• Portal admins, auditors and third-party training providers.

• Citizens, academicians, Cyber entgusists, Cyber researchers.

Identity & Role Management

o   Verified single sign-on (SSO) using  acceptable Personal Identiy documents plus role attributes (CERT analyst, LEA, trainer).

o   Multi-factor authentication & hardware token support for sensitive roles.

Secured Collaboration & Intelligence Exchange

o   Encrypted, role-based Threat Advisory Board with capability to post TLP (Traffic Light Protocol)-labelled alerts; ACLs and audit trails.

o   Secure inbox/incident-tasking channel between CERT-In, I4C and authorized partners.

Professional Registry & Mobility

o   Self-verified CV/profile, professional certificates and experience details. Applicant to be responsible for accuracy and correctness. CSAI does not own responsibility for the same. Applicant indemnifies CSAI from any actions arising of declaring false, fake or incorrect information’s, documents.

Training & CoE Catalogue

o   List of accredited CoEs, calendar of courses, exam registration, e-certificates

o   Learning management system (LMS) with micro-credentials and API to NSD/ISAC-type certs.

Job Board & Rapid Response Roster

o   Short-term emergency deployment roster and job postings for assignments, with filters by clearance and skillsd

Data model & privacy

• Minimal personal data for public parts (profiles) and nonvisible PII for verified records.

• Applicant hereby give consent to  upload their data on the portal and allow sharing of their profile. Applicant hereby indemnifies CSAI from any and all actions, liabilities etc.  that may arise due to data privacy breach.,