Building a cyber-resilient India in the AI era

As AI becomes more integrated into business and daily life, the need for robust cybersecurity measures becomes an imperative for the country

- IRINA GHOSE

face a critical challenge — the data and insights from various security tools are often siloed or, at best, loosely integrated. This fragmented approach makes it difficult to gain a holistic view of threats or assess their potential impact on critical assets.

This growing threat landscape underscores the need for a unified, AI-driven cyber defence strategy. To address this, Microsoft launched the Secure Future Initiative (SFI), embedding security principles into every stage of technology development — ensuring solutions are secure by design, by default, and in operation. Microsoft has dedicated the equivalent of 34,000 engineers to advance the objectives laid out in SFI, making it the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.

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