India, June 30 -- As AI deployments grow, cyber threats are evolving faster than human analysts can respond. This has put increasing pressure on businesses to rethink their cybersecurity strategy, as traditional security and Security Operations Centres (SOC) are showing their age. SOCs are struggling with high alert volumes, false positives, manual triage, Service Level Agreement (SLA) breaches, and dependence on large teams. IBM's 2026 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index found a 44% increase in attacks that began with the exploitation of public-facing applications, largely driven by missing authentication controls and AI-enabled vulnerability discovery.

While Indian business leaders cite cybersecurity as a barrier to scaling AI, existing ...