The Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks has won the Data Security Council of India 2021 Excellence Award for its contributions towards Cybersecurity education. Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan, Director, Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, received the award on behalf of Amrita.

Amrita has received the award under the category DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber Security Evangelists.

The DSCI recognition honors and rewards Amrita for having taken strategic, proactive and innovative security and privacy efforts to help address real risks, build resilience, increase trustworthiness and create a conducive environment for doing business and thus enable organizations to harness data protection as a lever for business growth. The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) is a not-for-profit, industry body on dataprotection in India, set up by NASSCOM, committed to making the cyberspace safe, secure and trusted by establishing best practices, standards and initiatives in cyber security and privacy.