NIELIT Launches CYBER KUSHTI 2026 Cybersecurity Hackathon
NIELIT has launched CYBER KUSHTI 2026, a free nationwide cybersecurity and AI hackathon that tests teams’ ability to prioritise risks and exercise human judgment, not only find vulnerabilities.
New Delhi: The National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), has launched CYBER KUSHTI 2026, a nationwide cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) hackathon aimed at evaluating participants’ ability to exercise human judgment in cybersecurity assessments rather than only identify vulnerabilities, it was announced on Sunday.
CYBER KUSHTI 2026 is the official parallel technical track of the 3rd National Conference on Cyber Security, Digital Forensics and Intelligence (NCCDFI 2026). It is being organised in collaboration with the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC Foundation) under the National Security Database (NSD), with CERT-In as the knowledge partner.
Registration opened on August 15 and will continue until September 10. Participation is free and open to students and independent researchers competing in teams of three.
