Cybersecurity must enable business, not hinder it

Generative AI is a double-edged sword. In addition to strengthening a defender's capabilities it also enables attackers to produce incredibly real emails and phishing materials, deepfakes, and automated tools for exploitation.

- By Aanchal Ghatak

As threat vectors change and digital transformation accelerates, cybersecurity leaders are tasked with providing much more than protection; they also need to foster growth while maintaining trust. Aditya Khullar, Chief Information Security Officer and Data Privacy Officer at Adani Digital Labs, offers sixteen years of strategic experience.

In this candid dialogue, he shares his profession's priorities for 2025, lessons learned from implementing Zero Trust, along with practical frameworks that are working at ground level.

What is your top cybersecurity priority for the next 12 months?

Our near-term focus is on building out detection and response capability. The sophistication of cyber threats is increasing and traditional perimeter defenses are insufficient. We are building out continuous testing processes throughout our digital ecosystem. We've also invested heavily in threat intelligence and threat detection capabilities. What is important to us is to reach as close to real time anomaly detection and response capabilities as possible—essentially transitioning from a reactive state of security posture to a state of predictive security.

What emerging threats or trends are you most concerned about in 2025?