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As many as 96 per cent of organisations in India suffered a material, business-disrupting cyber incident over the past 12 months, with more than one in three involving artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced attacks, according to a report released by technology major Cisco. The study highlighted that internal organisational friction - including bureaucratic approval delays, fragmented data, and disconnected teams - represents a greater impediment to strengthening cyber defences than technological limitations. The findings are part of Cisco's 'Relentless Defense Report', based on a double-blind survey of 8,000 security professionals across 30 markets, including 1,000 respondents from India. The report evaluated organisations on how completely they protect their environments, the speed at which they detect and remediate threats and the operational bottlenecks that slow them down. India recorded an average score of 66 out of 100, marginally above the global average of 64. However, only
Cybersecurity solutions provider Check Point Software Technologies on Wednesday announced the appointment of Krishnan V V as its Managing Director and Country Head for India and South Asia, effective immediately. In his new role, Krishnan will oversee the company's business strategy, profit and loss (P&L) performance, go-to-market execution, and organisational development across the region, according to a company statement. He will report to Ruma Balasubramanian, President, Asia Pacific & Japan (APAC & Japan), the company said. Krishnan brings over three decades of leadership experience. Before joining Check Point, he served as Country Director - BFSI at Palo Alto Networks. He has also previously held senior leadership positions at several companies, including Wipro, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Symantec and Seclore. "India sits at the centre of many of the world's most important technology and business transformations. As AI adoption accelerates, organisations are looking ...
Gaganyaan astronaut and IAF pilot Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair on Saturday said AI sovereignty is crucial for ensuring national cybersecurity, as the growing use of artificial intelligence is making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between real and fake content. Speaking at the Kerala Cyber Suraksha Summit 2026, organised by Kerala Startup Mission and F9 Infotech, Nair said cybersecurity would have limited value unless the country developed ownership and control over AI technologies. "It is very important that we have AI sovereignty, and any amount of cybersecurity will be of no avail unless we own AI," he said. Nair said future wars and industries would involve a "whole-of-nation approach", making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between physical and digital boundaries. "In the whole-of-nation approach, it's very difficult to say where the physical boundaries end and where the digital boundaries start. And it's going to affect all of us," he said. He stressed the ne
Global cybersecurity major Sophos has recorded a 60 per cent growth in its India business in the last financial year, outperforming the broader domestic market growth by four times, a top company executive said. India is now the largest contributor to the company's Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) operations and is currently the number one growth region for Sophos globally. "The cybersecurity market in India is growing at approximately 15 per cent. In the last financial year (FY26), we grew at 60 per cent, which means we are growing at four times the market (rate)," Gavin Struthers, Senior Vice President Asia-Pacific & Japan, Sophos, told PTI in an interaction. Struthers attributed this "phenomenal achievement" to the rising awareness of the importance of cyber resilience and increased regulatory focus, including the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act. The company currently employs over 1,500 people in India, making it the largest employee base for Sophos across all ...