If you speak with plant managers in Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, or Jamshedpur today, you’ll notice a shift in their worries. It’s no longer just labour shortages, supply chain delays, or machinery downtime. It’s cyber attacks. Manufacturing was once an unlikely target, but with factories moving toward automation, IoT sensors, robotic systems, and cloud-connected production lines,...

If you ask founders of small and mid-sized Indian companies what stresses them the most, you’ll hear the usual answers—hiring, cash flow, customer acquisition. Cybersecurity rarely makes the top three. But for many of those same businesses, the most disruptive moments in the past two years came not from competition or finances, but from unexpected...

If you run a business in India, there’s a good chance your WhatsApp group has had at least one “urgent security alert” message in the past year. Maybe a supplier’s system got hacked. Maybe one of your vendors suddenly went offline. Maybe your own staff reported strange login attempts at 2:30 AM. This has quietly...

SMEs in India are often caught in a strange dilemma. They invest in a firewall because “every business needs one,” but after installation, the device sits untouched for months—or even years. Rules don’t get updated. Alerts go unread. Firmware isn’t patched. No one reviews access logs. And then one day, something happens—an intrusion, an employee...