{"id":217115,"date":"2026-02-24T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:00:10","slug":"it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push\/","title":{"rendered":"IT, BFSI &#038; telecom headline India&#8217;s AI cybersecurity push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/tech\/technology\/it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push\/articleshow\/128768089.cms\">IT, BFSI &#038; telecom headline India&#8217;s AI cybersecurity push<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/tech\/technology\/it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push\/articleshow\/128768089.cms\">https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/tech\/technology\/it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push\/articleshow\/128768089.cms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 21:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"m.economictimes.com\">m.economictimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), information technology services and telecom are emerging as the front-runners in India&#8217;s adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity, driven by high-stakes threats such as fraud, credential theft, ransomware and network-level attacks, said experts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Banks, fintechs and insurance companies rely heavily on AI for fraud detection, identity monitoring and behavioural analytics. Regulatory pressure and instant payment ecosystems make automated threat detection essential,&#8221; said Ravindra Baviskar, director=sales engineering (India &#038; SAARC) at Sophos, a global cybersecurity firm.<\/p>\n<p>IT\/ITeS is close behind, according to him. &#8220;These companies manage global customer data and distributed cloud environments, so AI-assisted threat detection and response help handle scale, alert fatigue and sophisticated attacks,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A December 2025 joint report by the Data Security Council of India and Palo Alto Networks confirmed this, saying technology\/IT\/ITeS and BFSI were the lead adopters and describing IT firms as early adopters and innovation drivers in AI-enabled security, focused on &#8220;continuous compliance monitoring and anomaly detection&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/tech\/technology\/it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push\/articleshow\/128768089.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT, BFSI &#038; telecom headline India&#8217;s AI cybersecurity push https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/tech\/technology\/it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push\/articleshow\/128768089.cms Publish Date: 2026-02-24 21:36:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/width-1200,height-900,imgsize-148880,resizemode-75,msid-128768089\/tech\/technology\/it-bfsi-telecom-headline-indias-ai-cybersecurity-push.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,28,57],"class_list":["post-217115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-security","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217117,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217115\/revisions\/217117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}