Don’t pass the baton: How Indian businesses can keep attackers at bay
By Anand Jude Kannabiran, Vice President – Asia, Delinea
India has been leading the AI agent adoption wave from the front. Microsoft’s Work Trend Index found that 93% of Indian business leaders plan to deploy AI agents within the next 18 months, and EY’s survey shows 24% of leaders are already deploying agentic AI, with deployment speed now the deciding factor in buy-versus-build decisions. That speed is exactly what attackers are banking on.
As more Indian enterprises put AI agents into production across banking, retail, and IT services, bad actors are combining multiple techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in these agents and the systems they depend on i.e. connectors, tool integrations, and model-context protocols (MCPs). This mirrors how traditional software supply-chain attacks evolved: compromise one trusted, widely used component, and you gain access to many others. AI agents are fertile ground because they hold credentials, call tools, inherit permissions, and act...
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