About NCRA
A national standard for the people who keep India secure.
NCRA exists to give every student, professional, and institution a clear, comparable measure of cybersecurity readiness — and to give the country a single source of truth for its cyber workforce capability.
Make cybersecurity readiness measurable, verifiable, and improvable at national scale.
India's digital growth depends on a workforce that can build, defend, and govern securely. Today, capability is unevenly measured — résumés, certifications, and ad-hoc tests don't translate across institutions or sectors.
NCRA replaces that fragmentation with a single, adaptive, AI-calibrated assessment framework. Whether you're a first-year student or a chief information security officer, your readiness score means the same thing — and can be verified by anyone.
What guides every design and policy decision.
Standards-aligned
Mapped to NIST NICE, ISO 27001, and CERT-In guidelines for interoperability.
Evidence-based
Item banks, scoring models, and difficulty calibration are reviewed by a national academic panel.
National in scope
Designed to assess capability across every state, sector, and seniority level in India.
Inclusive by design
Multilingual, accessible, and proctored with privacy-preserving safeguards.
How NCRA scores readiness.
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Domain framework
Eleven cybersecurity domains — from secure development to governance and incident response — mapped to role expectations.
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Item bank
10,000+ items written and peer-reviewed by an academic and industry panel, calibrated using item response theory.
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Adaptive engine
Each candidate sees a unique sequence; the engine targets the boundary of their ability for maximum information per question.
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Scoring & banding
Standardized 0–1000 readiness score with five national bands (Foundational → Master), reported with confidence intervals.
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Certification
Verifiable credential with cryptographic signature, expiry, and a public verification record.
Establish your cyber readiness, on the national standard.
Join thousands of candidates, institutions, and enterprises adopting NCRA as their default capability benchmark.