Identity emerges as the new security perimeter for Indian enterprises, warns Seqrite

Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, has warned that password-based security systems are rapidly losing relevance as identity-centric attacks gain momentum across Indian organisations.

Findings from the India Cyber Threat Report 2026, compiled by researchers at Seqrite Labs, point to a decisive shift in the threat landscape, where identity is replacing the traditional network perimeter as the primary attack surface. According to the report, increasingly sophisticated AI-assisted attacks are rendering static password mechanisms ineffective, particularly in hybrid and cloud-first enterprise environments.

A key trend highlighted in the report is the growing weaponisation of OAuth tokens. Seqrite’s telemetry, drawn from more than eight million monitored endpoints, shows OAuth abuse emerging as a dominant vector in cloud intrusions. Attackers are exploiting misconfigured identity providers to impersonate legitimate users, move laterally across environments, and access sensitive resources without triggering conventional malware-based alerts. Behaviour-based detections blocked over 34 million ...