Why AI should be embedded in India’s national cyber defence strategy
By Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala, CEO, Securin
India is one of the fastest-growing digital economies on earth — Digital India, UPI, Aadhaar, hundreds of millions of people transacting online every day. That scale is India’s strength, and increasingly, its exposure. Cyber incidents reported in India are now climbing into the hundreds of millions annually, with losses running into tens of thousands of crores. Ransomware, fraud, and supply-chain attacks aren’t occasional anymore. They’re constant.
I’ve spent decades in this fight, contributing to the U.S. Department of Defense cybersecurity programs, and now leading Securin. What I’ve learned over that time is simple: the question for India isn’t whether to bring AI into cyber defense. It’s how fast, and how deep.
Attackers already have the advantage
Adversaries are weaponizing AI today. State actors and criminal groups are using it to find vulnerabilities, write exploit code, chain attacks together, and generate convincing phishing content and...
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