-Mr. Balaji Rao, Area Vice President, Commvault, India & SAARC:

“India is amongst the top three nations in Asia, basis the number of cyberattack incidents in 2022. Our country has witnessed 18 million cyberattacks in the first quarter of 2022 alone. Cyber-attacks are growing in complexity and intricacy, massively hampering all key industries from healthcare and IT to finance and retail. With each day, attackers are rolling out newer, more lethal strategies to navigate public and private data networks and gain access to mission-critical data.This Cybersecurity Month, we must look back at the major operational shifts that India and the world has been witnessing with the onset of pandemic. Flexible and remote work models have become more prominent than ever. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has also emerged as a gamechanger, highlighting the acute need for enterprises to adopt comprehensive solutions to safeguard data, and also partner with data experts to design a future-ready, cloud data strategy to fight the threats of tomorrow. Cyber deception is one such cutting-edge defence strategy, which puts organisations one step ahead of the attacker, a proactive, early warning system intercepting a threat before their data is compromised. Even the stealthiest zero-day attacks that evade conventional detection technology and circumvent security controls can be exposed with cyber deception, leading to a resilient, secure future for your organisational data.”