Pixabay | Photo Credit: Pixabay The shift to online education during the pandemic has highlighted the need to incorporate cybersecurity in the curriculum Using computers and Internet technologies without understanding the basics of cybersecurity is akin to driving a car without seatbelts. Though Information Technology as a discipline has been popular for decades, cybersecurity as a structured curriculum is a relatively recent phenomenon. Although India has emerged as a software services-based power, the country is on its way to reinventing itself as a software product-making power as well. At the same time, as a major economy consistently recording one of the fastest growth rates, notwithstanding COVID-19, coupled with the large-scale digitisation of various modes of governance and administration, the imperative to upgrade our cybersecurity cannot be overstated. As such, the world’s second largest Internet-connected country needs to train a sufficient pool of cyber warriors to deflect and deal with the rising threats posed to its IT-driven product and service infrastructure and systems.