The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) is a premier think-tank and a not-for-profit Industry body for Cybersecurity. A small yet dynamic team at DSCI engages with governments and their agencies, regulators, industry sectors, startups, industry associations and think tanks for policy advocacy, thought leadership, capacity building and outreach activities.DSCI has an initiative on semiconductor security called The Centre for Hardware Security Entrepreneurship Research and Development (C-HERD). C-HERD is a Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, India (MeitY) funded national-level initiative of the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) and works on accelerating progress in semiconductor security by driving groundbreaking research, fostering next-generation startups, propelling the development of innovative products, enabling businesses to create secure