Strategy 2020 • Social exchanges o Business and financial transaction processing o National economic transformation o Cross border exchanges: exchanges, data flows, trade, etc. [Future Casting 2] Promoting the efforts and research for: • o • o o Developing a comprehensive & structural understanding of the current state. Relating, mapping & categorizing the elements of future and assess threats o Assessing contemporary evolutions & ongoing fundamental researches that would determine future technology roadmap by o Evaluating paradigms that bring structural change, for example, speech-to-text AI would be making most aspects of infrastructures voice-enabled Understanding ingredients and conditions lead to transformational changes and thresholds that bring these changes Studying the cybersecurity ramifications of these evolutions [Future Casting 3] Identifying the areas of strategic interests or the ones that would be bringing transformational changes o Mapping of current technologies and capabilities that would be vital for it. Maintaining the repository of the work of start-ups, private sector, public sector, academia, and research institutes in them o Evaluating the role of technology capabilities' role in the supply chains of the key product lines. Assess India's contribution to them o Identifying the areas essential from the perspective supply-chain security • Ensuring institutional and infrastructural development for security evaluations of the technologies, devices, solutions, and platforms • Ensuring active participation in the standard making initiatives shaping new technology developments • Promoting investment in the start-ups and institutional research in the critical technology areas, with a specific focus on cybersecurity • Advocating the development of sandboxes for identifying and evaluating cybersecurity issues and the type of interventions required • Providing the risk capital for the development of core cybersecurity capabilities focused on solving the problems in the technology transformations • Making the conducive environment for attracting investment in the areas leading to new paradigms for cybersecurity • Promoting the development of niche skills and expertise that can address complex cybersecurity issues in new technology areas A NASSCOM® Initiative

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