Banks have traditionally treated trust as an outcome. The Digital Threat Report 2025–26 suggests it should now be treated as an asset class. Released jointly by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), CERT-In, CSIRT-Fin, and cybersecurity firm SISA, the second edition of the report arrives at a pivotal moment for India’s Banking, Financial…
Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from experimentation to execution. Across industries, organizations are embedding AI into customer service, fraud detection, underwriting, supply-chain planning, document processing, compliance monitoring, analytics, and internal decision-making. As adoption accelerates, discussions around AI risk have largely focused on visible concerns such as cybersecurity, privacy, bias, hallucinations, regulatory compliance, and ethical governance….
For more than three decades, cybersecurity strategies have been built around a simple ambition: keep adversaries out. Organisations invested billions of dollars in firewalls, endpoint security, identity management, threat intelligence and increasingly sophisticated detection tools to build stronger digital fortresses. Yet the reality of the modern threat landscape has exposed an uncomfortable truth: prevention alone…
Modern businesses increasingly resemble interconnected digital ecosystems rather than standalone enterprises. Cloud platforms manage customer data. External vendors process payroll. SaaS tools monitor productivity. Third-party APIs connect financial systems. Logistics partners integrate directly into operational workflows. Marketing agencies access customer databases. Cybersecurity vendors themselves depend on multiple subcontracted infrastructure providers. Yet despite this growing interdependence,…
For years, cyber security discussions in boardrooms largely revolved around prevention. Build stronger perimeters. Invest in better firewalls. Detect breaches faster. Recover systems quickly. That framework is now evolving into something broader and far more consequential. The global conversation is increasingly shifting from cyber security towards digital operational resilience, the ability of an organisation not…
By Anand Iyer Group Chief Technology Officer, ICRA By 2026, the CTO’s mandate will be judged less by the speed of delivery and more by the quality of endurance: how well the enterprise withstands shocks, preserves trust and proves control over increasingly autonomous digital systems. The backdrop is a risk environment where cyber incidents, regulatory…
