India’s Cyber Defence Needs an AI Wake-Up Call

By Diwakar Dayal, Managing Director & Area Vice President – India & SAARC, SentinelOne

Cyber defence is entering a new era of complexity. As India races ahead in its digital transformation, threat actors are racing just as fast, using artificial intelligence (AI) to launch attacks that are smarter and stealthier. From hyper-realistic deepfakes to malware that mutates to evade detection, the game has changed. Every business and government agency now finds itself under growing pressure to keep up with the speed and sophistication of AI-powered cyber threats.

The Security Operations Centre (SOC), the hub of any organisation’s defence, is feeling the strain. Analysts are drowning in data, juggling rising alert volumes and complex attack surfaces. Legacy tools and manual workflows simply can’t keep pace, often missing as much as 38% of emerging threats.

When attackers can remain undetected within systems for months, a fundamental shift is ...