05/10/2026
The threat landscape has upgraded. But has our education system?
At the CII Northern Region Chandigarh Education Summit 2026, our Founder and Director, Dildeep Singh, was invited as a panelist to share his perspective on an increasingly important question: Are we preparing students for the world they are actually going to operate in?
One of the key ideas he highlighted was the Cyber–Physical–Cognitive Continuum. We still tend to talk about AI, cybersecurity, physical security, and cognitive security as separate disciplines. But the real world isn’t quite so polite.
Modern conflict is increasingly multi-domain. From Operation Sindoor to developments across other global theatres, we are seeing AI, cyber capabilities, electronic warfare, drones, intelligence, physical systems and information increasingly intersect.
And that raises an important question for education: The battlefield doesn’t work in silos anymore. Why should our curriculum? Perhaps we need to move beyond asking: Should students learn AI? Should they learn cybersecurity? Of course they should. But the bigger question here is, Are we preparing students to understand what happens when AI, cyber, physical systems, information—and human cognition—collide in the real world?
Because tomorrow’s professionals may not simply be protecting a network. They could be protecting a system, a decision, an institution, and ultimately, human trust. That is the Cyber–Physical–Cognitive Continuum our education ecosystem needs to start preparing for.
