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India Records Highest Average Cost of a Data Breach at INR 220 million in 2025: IBM Report

8Aug

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India Records Highest Average Cost of a Data Breach at INR 220 million in 2025: IBM Report

New Delhi, ,August 2025.IBM today released its Cost of a Data Breach Report, which revealed the average total organizational cost of data breach in India reached an all-time high of INR 220 million in 2025 (13% higher than last year). The report also found that globally, AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance. While the overall number of organizations globally experiencing an AI-related breach is a small representation of the researched population, this is the first time security, governance and access controls for AI have been studied in this report, which suggests AI is already an easy, high value target.Only 37% of organizations reported having AI access controls in place in IndiaNearly 60% of organizations either don’t have AI governance pol...

59% of Indian Enterprises have actively deployed AI, highest among countries surveyed: IBM report

15Feb

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59% of Indian Enterprises have actively deployed AI, highest among countries surveyed: IBM report

New Delhi, February 15, 2024.New research commissioned by IBM (NYSE: IBM) found that about 59% of enterprise-scale organizations (over 1,000 employees) surveyed in India have AI actively in use in their businesses. The ‘IBM Global AI Adoption Index 2023’ found early adopters are leading the way, with 74% of those Indian enterprises already working with AI,having accelerated their investments in AI in the past 24 months in areas like R&D and workforce reskilling.Ongoing challenges for AI adoption remain, including hiring employees with the right skill sets and ethical concerns, inhibiting businesses from adopting AI technologies into their operations. Therefore, in 2024 addressing these inhibitors would be a priority, like providing people with the relevant skills to work with A...

Indian Organizations Say Hybrid Cloud Approach is Critical to Unlock the Power of Generative AI: IBM Report

12Dec

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Indian Organizations Say Hybrid Cloud Approach is Critical to Unlock the Power of Generative AI: IBM Report

Bengaluru, December 2023. A new global survey from IBM (NYSE: IBM) revealed that in India,64% of hybrid cloud users have a formal, organization-wide policy and/or approach for the use of Generative AI (GenAI). However, barriers that once slowed down hybrid cloud adoption are now impeding the implementation of GenAI.Cloud leaders are concerned about the challenges associated with the privacy and confidentiality of data and information when adopting GenAI. In addition to the ability to unlock the power of generative AI being cited as one of the key benefits of a hybrid cloud approach,leaders agreed that a cloud environment is essential for managing sustainability initiatives at an enterprise level, but workforce deficiencies in cloud skills are impacting implementation.The ...

IBM Report: Average cost of a data breach in India touched INR 179 million in 2023

25Jul

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IBM Report: Average cost of a data breach in India touched INR 179 million in 2023

Bengaluru, July 25, 2023.IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security today released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report,[1]showingthe average cost of a data breach in India reached INR 179 million in 2023 – an all-time high for the report and almost a 28% increase since 2020. Detection and escalation costs jumped 45% over this same time frame, representing the highest portion of breach costs, and indicating a shift towards more complex breach investigations.At nearly 22%, the most common attack typein India was phishing, followed by stolen or compromised credentials (16%).Social engineering was the costliest root cause of breaches at INR 191 million,followed bymalicious insider threats, which amounted to approximately INR 188 million.According to the 2023 IBM report, globally b...