Information Security is a major concern in all organizations. In particular, governments and industries worldwide have forecast a shortage of high demand for information security professionals. One can expect good employment prospects with local and multinational businesses, governments, financial and banking institutions, and consulting firms as IT security specialists, IT security auditors, network and systems specialists, and IT security product developers and solution providers.

To cater to above opportunities, School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad is launching a new Master of Technology (M.Tech) Programme in Information Security [with “Cyber Security” as a Specialized Stream]. This is a 2 Years Full-time programme, jointly being conducted with C R Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS), University of Hyderabad; from the Academic year 2018-19. Online applications will be invited from GATE qualified candidates of 2016, 2017 and 2018 from 07-06-2018 to 30-06-2018.

For further details please visit URL http://acad.uohyd.ac.in/downloads/MTIS.pdf. The above programme is approved by AICTE, with intake of 18 seats. Each admitted student will receive AICTE-GATE fellowship.

The programme also has provision of additional 5 seats for employees with a minimum 2 years of work experience in IT companies registered with STPI or NASSCOM or Central Government Organizations.