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Defenders of Digital Bharat: Securing India's Next Era of Digital Finance
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CNBC TV18•28-09-2026, 19:54
Defenders of Digital Bharat: Securing India's Next Era of Digital Finance
- •India's financial ecosystem is rapidly evolving with digital payments, fintech, cloud, and AI, creating new cybersecurity challenges across the entire ecosystem.
- •The "Defenders of Digital Bharat" initiative, launched by Fortinet and CNBC-TV18, brings together experts to discuss building digital trust at scale.
- •Key challenges include maintaining uniform security across diverse customer channels, translating complexity into customer confidence, and making security frictionless.
- •The expanding attack surface, driven by interconnected financial services and partners, necessitates integrated security architectures and ecosystem-wide resilience.
- •AI presents both new threats and opportunities for defense, requiring organizations to secure AI systems, defend against AI-enabled attacks, and leverage AI for stronger cyber defense.
Key Questions Answered
The Defenders of Digital Bharat initiative brings together leading technology and cybersecurity experts to discuss the challenges shaping India's digital future, focusing specifically on building digital trust at scale across the financial ecosystem.
Institutions are shifting towards contextual and risk-based security approaches that use signals like user behavior, device, and location to assess risk and apply verification when needed, avoiding unnecessary friction during transactions.
Subramanian Udaiyappan emphasized that the only two parameters that truly matter in security operations are MTTD (mean time to detect) and MTTR (mean time to respond).
