Texial, a multi‑award‑winning cybersecurity consulting and digital forensics firm headquartered in Bengaluru, announced a landmark national workforce initiative aimed at strengthening India’s cyber‑defence talent pool. Leveraging a decade of experience as an extended technical arm to government investigative agencies, law‑enforcement cyber cells, defence establishments and Fortune‑grade enterprises, Texial will open its operational cyber‑warfare laboratories, digital forensics toolkits and live Security Operations Center (SOC) command rooms to aspiring engineers, fresh graduates and working IT professionals across the country.

The initiative is anchored by five flagship regional command hubs located in Bangalore (National Headquarters and primary cyber‑range), Hyderabad (FinTech and Global Capability Center hub), Pune (Enterprise IT, SaaS and automotive security hub), Kolkata (Eastern India cyber‑intelligence and forensics centre) and Coimbatore (Next‑Gen SaaS and industrial engineering corridor). Each hub will deliver three practitioner tracks – a cyber‑security course, an ethical‑hacking (red‑team) course and an operational SOC course – resulting in a total of fifteen distinct training pathways nationwide.

Texial’s training model is built on five distinguishing pillars: (1) an extended technical arm to public‑sector agencies and corporate forensic units, bringing real‑case intelligence into every cohort; (2) a multi‑award‑winning pedigree recognised across national technology forums and university partnerships; (3) mentorship delivered exclusively by active forensic analysts, penetration testers and incident responders rather than academic faculty; (4) an 80% live‑fire cyber‑range and SIEM/SOAR immersion component where trainees conduct vulnerability assessments, malware reverse‑engineering, packet forensics and L1‑L3 alert triage within isolated enterprise networks; and (5) end‑to‑end career acceleration aligned with global certifications from EC‑Council, CompTIA, PECB and others, supported by mock technical drills and direct industry placement linkages.

Director Suresh Kumar B stated, “True cyber defence cannot be taught from outdated textbooks or pre‑recorded videos by instructors who have never fought a live breach. By opening our operational forensic labs and live SOC war‑rooms to learners across the country, we are transforming students from certificate‑holders into battle‑tested cyber defenders.”

Admissions are now open for offline weekday, weekend and fast‑track corporate cohorts nationwide. Interested candidates can apply through texial.net, email admission@texial.net or call +91‑9886655699. The press release was distributed via Business Wire India, with PTI noting no editorial responsibility for the content.