B.Tech

1. Look for their placements
2. Look for their faculty
3. Look for their labs and equipment.

Hello Santosh,
It's very nice to see your dreams of graduation in engineering! Keep it up. Yes, you can of course go for engineering via lateral mode of entry directly into 2nd year. Every state has it's own rules and regulations and I would advise you to follow guidelines given on the website of DTE

BITS through BITSAT
UPES through UPES-EAT
Manipal University through MU-OET
VIT through VITEE
SRM through SRMJEEE.

First of all, you have to opt for B.Tech CSE to know basics about different aspects of networking, attacks, and basics of coding. Many universities offers specialised courses in B.Tech CSE for Cyber Security and related topics. You can choose for these specialised courses as well.

Cutoffs is around 80 percentile so you may not be able to get a call from IFMR. But still if you have exceptional profile then you may be able to get a call. They give decent weightage to profile of a candidate. If you have won any national level competition, participated in international level comp

Do you have any significant extra curricular activities?