According to a survey conducted by the state of Cybersecurity 2021, many organizations in India are experiencing an increase in cybersecurity attacks, with 32% of respondents indicating they had experienced more cyber-attacks than the year before.
With today’s cybersecurity landscape rapidly evolving, compliance alone is insufficient to protect an organization. The world has been racing towards developments in cyber defense, and not only corporations but governments and e-commerce sectors, have been investing in protecting their operations and shielding their networks from identity thefts, hackers invasions, online fraud, and cyber attacks. It’s time to focus on strengthening the security of the cyber infrastructure.
As per the media reports, recently, many companies in India have been on the receiving end of a series of cyberattacks, particularly from the dreaded ransomware. According to a survey conducted by the state of Cybersecurity 2021, many organizations in India are experiencing an increase in cybersecurity attacks, with 32% of respondents indicating they had experienced more cyber-attacks than the year before. A climb in the adoption of cloud platforms, digital payments, e-commerce, as well as internet users count reaching almost 700 million, has led to an increase in cyber threats for the country.
Here are some of the emerging cybersecurity startups that are worth keeping a watch.
WiJungle: WiJungle is indulged in developing and marketing unified network security gateway to companies in more than 25 countries across the globe. WiJungle was founded back in 2014, WiJungle was launched as a completely free WiFi service and it was the first Indian private company to bring up this idea. Right now, the company is serving to government and private companies across the country. WiJungle is offering its services to sectors like hospitality, healthcare, education, BFSI, retail, defense, transportation, ITES, and more.
Sequretek: Sequretek, a Mumbai, Maharashtra-based cybersecurity firm, helps businesses secure and manage information assets on all digital platforms. It provides AI and ML-driven security tools and solutions that ensure that companies are secured and properly armed against all the security threats without any vulnerability. Founded in 2013, the company has three major offerings to the industry: EDPR (Endpoint Detection, Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response) and IGA (Identity Governance and Administration).
Cyware: Cyware is the only company building Virtual Cyber Fusion Centers enabling end-to-end threat intelligence automation, sharing, and unprecedented threat response for organizations globally. Cyware’s Threat Sharing network includes several major ISACs, empowering them to share threat intelligence between their members and enabling cross-sector information sharing by connecting them through automated, ISAC-to-ISAC level alert sharing.
SAFE Security: SAFE enables an organization to predict cyber breaches in their environment while contextually aggregating signals from existing cybersecurity products, external threat intelligence and business context. This data is fed into a supervised Machine Learning Bayesian Network-based breach likelihood prediction engine that gives scores, prioritized actionable insights, and the $ Value Risk the organization is facing.
Source: Business World
