April 2026 For years, the advice was simple: look for spelling mistakes, be suspicious of urgent requests, hover over links. That advice no longer works. AI-generated phishing and business email compromise now account for 22% of all cyber incidents in India, and the attacks produced by these tools are sophisticated, personalised, and indistinguishable from legitimate … Read more
March 2026 India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 were officially notified on 13 November 2025, and with that notification, the compliance clock started running. This is no longer a future obligation or a policy draft under discussion — it is an enforceable legal framework with real penalties, real enforcement machinery, and a timeline that … Read more
April 2026 A new report from Check Point Software has landed with a stark finding: India is now the Asia-Pacific epicentre of ransomware activity, with the manufacturing sector absorbing the heaviest blow. According to the Manufacturing Threat Landscape 2025 report, 65% of affected Indian organisations paid ransom demands last year, with average payouts reaching $1.35 … Read more
January 2026 Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team has issued a clear warning for India’s 2026 security environment: Advanced Persistent Threats driven by state-sponsored actors will intensify, and their targets are no longer confined to government networks or defence establishments. As India’s critical infrastructure — power grids, water systems, transport networks, smart cities — becomes … Read more
April 2026 For most of 2024 and 2025, security teams hoped that the surge in ransomware activity would plateau and decline. New data from GuidePoint Security’s Q1 2026 threat report confirms it has not. Ransomware attack volumes in the first quarter of 2026 remained steady relative to both Q4 2025 and Q1 2025, establishing what … Read more
March 2026 The supply chain has become the preferred entry point for sophisticated attackers — and the numbers from 2025 make the scale of the problem undeniable. Supply chain attacks rose from 154 incidents in 2024 to 297 in 2025, an increase of nearly 93%. The strategy is logical from an attacker’s perspective: compromise one … Read more
February 2026 The Government of India’s launch of the National Cybersecurity Strategy 2026 signals something important: the state now views cyber resilience as a matter of national economic security, not merely an IT policy concern. For businesses operating in India, this shift has practical implications — both in terms of what is expected of private … Read more
March 2026 There is a structural problem at the centre of enterprise cybersecurity that no amount of software investment can fully solve: there are not enough skilled security analysts to staff the detection and response functions that modern organisations need. This talent gap is global, but in India it is particularly acute — and it … Read more
2025 / 2026 Data The average cost of a data breach in India exceeded ₹17.9 crore in 2024, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report — and that figure is not a worst-case outlier. It is an average across incidents of varying severity, affecting organisations of varying size. For mid-sized businesses, the proportional … Read more
2026 The data from Check Point’s 2026 threat research is striking and largely unreported in mainstream business media: the education sector is the most heavily attacked industry in India, absorbing approximately 7,684 cyberattacks per organisation per week. Government entities face 4,912, and business services 3,747. Education — schools, universities, coaching institutes, and EdTech platforms — … Read more