AI-Powered Phishing Has Changed the Game: Why Traditional Email Security Is No Longer Enough

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

DPDP Rules 2025 Are Now Active: The Compliance Window Is Shorter Than You Think

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

Ransomware Has Reached a “New Normal”: What Steady Attack Volumes Into 2026 Actually Mean

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

Supply Chain Attacks Nearly Doubled in 2025: Understanding the Vendor Risk Problem

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

The SOC Talent Gap Is Getting Worse: Why Managed Security Is No Longer a Luxury

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

The Education Sector Is India’s Most Attacked Industry: What Schools, Colleges, and EdTech Businesses Need to Do

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