Over the years CSRC has emerged as a national security resource Centre and is now being envisaged as a Multidisciplinary Centre for cyber security research. In addition:
- Conduct high quality applied research in emerging areas of InfoSec including social media, pervasive computing, and crowdsourcing and perform analytics to extract Intelligence.
- Create indigenous innovative solutions via commercial applications of research.
- CSRC aims at bridging gaps by being think tank for the nation:
- Bridging gaps using institutional frame work to bridge the divide between, the Government the military and the industry.
- Bridging to a large extent by association with the Centre and an ecosystem of academia and industry with much longer tenures.
- CSRC offers personnel from all arms with aptitude with different cadre including LEA
- Create opportunities for the transfer of skills, knowledge and ideas between CSRC and the community at large.
- Aid and advice organizations in cyber security policy enforcements, conduct of security audits and incident handling.