NMDC signs MoU with IIT Kanpur to bolster cyber security

State-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIT Kanpur to fortify cyber information and beforehand integer technologies.

The MoU is simply a measurement to bolster industry-academia collaboration and facilitate caller initiatives successful the areas of cyber information and beforehand the adoption of modern integer technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), crossed NMDC’s operations.

Satyendra Rai, Executive Director (Digital Transformation), connected behalf of NMDC and Ashoke De, Dean-R&D, IIT Kanpur successful the beingness of Manindra Agrawal, Director, IIT Kanpur, elder officials from NMDC and representatives from IIT Kanpur signed the MoU.

NMDC said it volition enactment with the premier instauration crossed cardinal areas specified arsenic cyber information hazard assessments; policy, governance and compliance support; AI and ML integration and advancement; information operations and incidental response; capableness gathering and cognition sharing; and associated probe and innovation.

Additionally, grooming programmes, probe activities, aviator projects and co-development of proof-of-concept solutions volition beryllium undertaken.

“The collaboration volition assistance fortify our integer defences, amended operational quality and physique a unafraid and future-ready technological instauration for NMDC,” CMD Amitava Mukherjee said successful a release.