India's National Cyber Security Coordinator, Dr. Gulshan Rai, puts forth a five-point agenda to secure digital India. Critics question what's new and different about the plan and suggest what they see as the right steps to security.
The security landscape is undergoing churn in India, and Deloitte's Akshay Garkel warns that with the country's regulators making big moves, the next six months should keep practitioners on their toes.
The nature of sophisticated fraud is changing, argues NPCI's Bharat Panchal. He shares experiences from his sector to support this idea, and he shares insights on how this will affect the security practitioner roles.
As cybersecurity demand surges in India, there is a crippling shortage of skilled professionals that the industry has been facing. KPMG's Sundar Ramaswamy suggests increased impetus on automating security roles will alleviate the problem.
Demonstrating the return on security investment and getting management buy-in remain some of the less glamorous, but very real challenges faced by Indian CISOs, says Shivkumar Pandey of the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Narayan Neelakantan, outgoing CISO at the National Stock Exchange of India, is concerned that the lack of capacity in incident response is going to haunt Indian organizations in the near future. He shares insight on IR maturity and the imminent need.
Security is moving fast, but is still playing a catch-up game with technology. In this scenario, age-old paradigms need to be revised to remain relevant, says Oracle's security lead for APAC, Chris Pickett
Singapore is considering data privacy and protection legislation soon, owing to strong support from the industry's data privacy and protection leaders. The government seems to be studying EU's General Data Protection Regulation closely to incorporate some elements.
Cross-regional collaboration, biological cybernetics and active defense/deception technology where some of the forward-looking themes at the recent MESA event in Dubai. Here are some highlights from ground zero.
Cyberattacks are increasing in frequency, complexity, nuance and stealth. But human error, business compulsions and increasingly complex environments make it difficult to maintain adequate defenses, says Juniper Network's CTO for India and SAARC
The $940 billion compensation awarded to Epic Systems in its case against Indian IT major TCS is unprecedented - shaking the industry out of its complacency to information security. Cyber law expert "Naavi" takes a close look at the implications for India.
The SWIFT messaging platform, which was hacked during the Bangladesh Bank heist, is used widely by most Indian banks for international financial transactions. Institutions that rely on the platform must be more vigilant, experts warn.
The section chief of the FBI's Cyber Division says "the FBI does not condone payment of ransom," in part because it enables criminals to victimize others. Instead, the bureau continues to urge all potential victims to get their IT house in order.
Are you making the most of all the intelligence available to you today? What are the practical aspects of plugging abstract threat intelligence into your specific business use cases? Deloitte's Parthasarathy shares deeper insight.
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