New Delhi, July 14 -- India's premier cybersecurity monitoring body has begun detecting vulnerabilities in leading public sector companies using an indigenous testing platform and open-source artificial intelligence models, while also building defences as access to the latest global AI tools remains restricted.

The trial platform has been developed at India's Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) over the past six months, at a time when the country has rolled out a series of sector-specific regulations to tackle the cyber risks and harms of AI-including the ministry of electronics and information technology's (Meity) curbs on AI deepfakes in February, and the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) model risk management framework for banks. ...