The present dispensation's concentration on cyber security is helpful. Companies in India are grappling because of the developing number of untoward cyber attacks and their consequences. It is just when the companies, private or public, secure themselves that the nation will probably safeguard itself from this new type of warfare.

Curiously, cyber postures of companies in India are to a great extent dictated by their size. The bigger companies are regularly much on top of things in implementing cyber defense frameworks. The mid-market and smaller companies are regularly observed to struggle, all the more because of the mentality thinking that they're small, they can't be a target for cybercriminals. Without appropriate security controls, companies have deferred incident discovery and response and may some of the time even neglect to identify incidents, just to be told later by third parties

With rapidly developing interconnected business operations and growing digitisation, cyber security challenges will undoubtedly escalate. Successful estimates should be taken to guarantee security against cyber attacks and dangers. While the country focuses on the development, it's also important to concentrate on the essentials that will help keep the development story on course.

After a seemingly endless amount of year after year, cyber attacks keep on heightening in recurrence, seriousness and effect. Detection and prevention techniques have demonstrated to a great extent incapable against the inexorably adept attacks, and numerous companies don't have a clue what to do, or don't have the resources to battle the present highly skilled and aggressive cybercriminals.

The BFSI fragment in India has seen growing scenarios of cyber attacks as of late. In addition, not has the number of attacks increased, yet its very nature has turned out to be more difficult to identify and prevent. According to different reports, cyber criminals focus on the BFSI area the most. Almost 22% to 25% of cyber attacks that stood out as truly newsworthy in the nation a year ago were from this area. With the occurrences of these dangers improbable to lessen, BFSI organizations are investigating every possibility to fortify their systems.

Playing out an exhaustive assessment of factors that add to the losses from cyber episodes remains an overwhelming task for banks in India, and subsequently, the genuine expense of cyber episodes is difficult to compute. A few factors that are regularly used to analyse the financial loss from cyber episodes incorporate loss of client business, legal, defense services, court repayments, examinations, forensics, and implementation of software for detection services and approaches among others.

Krishna Raj Sharma, CEO at iValue InfoSolutions stated that the digital age requests a creative rebuilding of the BFSI business. The introduction of new advancements and usage of innovative solutions, a totally different universe of opportunities are opening up. However, we can't disregard the way that at the same time, it's making another cyber attack surface and that is the place where people and our technology partners become an integral factor to support our customers.

The extreme improvement in cyber technologies has helped companies identify a greater number of episodes than before. A company would now be able to identify attackers as they enter its system, though prior it could just catch attackers on their way out, if by any means.

Another purpose behind the detection of more cyber incidents can be the intermingling of IT, operational technology and customer technology, which has helped companies adjust and develop plans of action, in any case, without a total comprehension of the dangers it involves. Therefore, it has been witnessed an expansion of incidents from cell phones, consumer devices, operational innovations and social media.

A recent summit was organised in Mumbai by iValue InfoSolutions, in association with Tenable, a Cyber Exposure organization wherein the fundamental topic of the event was to enable BFSI companies to perceive and lessen their cyber security dangers. More than 20 CIOs from the BFSI industry, prevalently the Public Sector Units (PSUs), took part in it. The participants discussed Tenable's Cyber Exposure platform and the significance of vulnerability management in the banking business. During the discussions, IT pioneers shared their encounters and featured current advancements and innovation trends in the BFSI business.

According to Diwakar Dayal, Managing Director – India, Tenable, cyber security is never again a tactical capacity, it's a strategic level discussion. As financial companies receive modern computing for competitive differentiation, CISOs must discover new ways to deal with overlooking their digital hazard. Cyber Exposure enables shared clients to oversee, measure and diminish their cyber exposure in the digital time.

BFSI organizations are quick to receive innovations like advanced analytics and business insight tools to recognize cyber assault trends, break down any fundamental associations and after that use these to address and resolve issues progressively. This will help their operations particularly as the majority of these organizations are centered around rustic areas of the nation, where security conventions are very dubious and subsequently vulnerability management turns out to be critical.