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India’s Cyber Battlefield: 369 Million Attacks and Counting

The India Cyber Threat Report 2025, produced by Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and Seqrite, reveals a massive surge in attacks last year. There were over 369 million detections in 2024–702 every minute.

As India digitises everything from banking to governance, this threat perimeter expands. Some obvious questions then:

How is India’s cyber landscape evolving?

Where do the biggest risks lie?

Are policy, technology, and enterprises prepared?

To answer all this and more StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Sunil Sharma, VP and MD-Sales, Sophos India on Capital Calculus. Sophos is a British firm that is in the business of cybersecurity.

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Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.