About NCRA
A readiness framework for the people who keep India secure.
NCRA exists to give students, professionals, and institutions a clear, comparable measure of cybersecurity readiness—and to build a stronger evidence base for cyber capability over time.
Make cybersecurity readiness measurable, verifiable, and improvable.
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 built for structured review and continuous validation.
Designed to scale
Built to assess capability across diverse sectors, roles, and regions as adoption grows.
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
A growing repository of 1,250 published questions, maintained for structured review and calibration.
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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
A standardized readiness score with defined capability bands, reported consistently across NCRA assessments.
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Certification
Verifiable credential with cryptographic signature, expiry, and a public verification record.
Cyber readiness is not a one-time test. It is a continuous capability.
NCRA is building the framework to measure it, understand it and strengthen it.