Warding off hackers: Bug bounty hunters working to keep firms cyber secure

Bug bounty hunters are certified cybersecurity professionals or security researchers, who crawl the web, scanning the systems for gaps through which hackers can sneak in and alert the companies

Take any security research report and you will find India topping the list of data breaches and cyberattacks. In February 2021 — almost a year since the pandemic landed on Indian shores — there were 377.5 million brute-force attacks globally. India accounted for 9.04 million of those. The total number of cyberattacks recorded in India during January and February 2021 was around 15 million, according to a Kaspersky report.

While many of the companies targeted had robust technology in place to prevent such incidents or mitigate their risk, security experts say the recent spate of data breaches is not just