Association president Janak Parikh said: “AMA will introduce a 10-15-day certificate course. Depending on the response, a diploma course of three to six months will be introduced later.”

Parikh said that in addition to terror crimes, the city has more than 10 lakh Internet users who are regularly exposed to credit card and net-banking related frauds.

“There is a widely felt need to spread awareness about cyber frauds like phishing, e-mail spoofing, pharming among others,

as also the security measures needed to avoid these,” he said.

AMA said it is in contact with two Indian and one US-based institutes, specialising in cyber security, which will train its faculty in various aspects of the technology.

“The names of these institutes will be premature to reveal, but along with the faculty training, we are also looking at them to train our students,” he said.

Meanwhile, as a precursor to the course and to get clarity on cyber crime prevention and prosecution related issues, AMA, along with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Ahmedabad is organising a day-long seminar and live demonstration on “Cyber Security- Need of the hour” on January 3.