India Security Summit 2025
Securing the Future: AI and the Crisis-Ready Cyber Defense
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Attacks, risk, and trust: Tackling emerging threats in an AI world
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Cybersecurity spending in Asia/Pacific is entering its most transformative phase yet. According to IDC’s Worldwide Security Spending Guide (2025), total enterprise security spending in the region is expected to grow from $44.4 billion in 2025 to $60.6 billion by 2028, reflecting a strong 10.6% CAGR.
India is not only the world’s fourth-largest economy but also ranks as the fourth-largest security spender within Asia/Pacific, signalling the country’s strategic shift toward proactive cyber resilience and governance-led modernization.
While AI continues to reshape the threat landscape with adaptive attacks and synthetic risks, the growing spectre of quantum computing adds another layer of complexity. This demands immediate architectural foresight and preparedness.
At IDC, we believe that AI plus Quantum is not just a risk multiplier, but also a powerful force for defense when embedded into intelligent detection, quantum-resilient encryption, and continuous compliance automation.
Join us at the IDC India Security Summit 2025 to hear how the region’s cybersecurity leaders are building resilience against a new generation of threats, powered by AI and prepared for the quantum era.
Expert Perspectives
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Exclusive Roundtable: Modern Security Architectures: From Fragmented Tools to Hybrid Mesh Strategies
In today’s hyperconnected world, enterprises face a growing challenge of securing fragmented tools and environments that increase complexity, costs, and risk. Hybrid mesh architectures unify security across users, networks, cloud, and OT environments—enabling consistent policy enforcement and visibility at scale.
According to IDC’s 2025 Asia/Pacific Security Study, 45% of Indian enterprises identified unified visibility across all tools and environments with centralized policy and access management as their top priority in an integrated cybersecurity platform—precisely what hybrid mesh strategies are designed to deliver. To truly realize this vision, enterprises require the right balance of strategic guidance, operational execution, and technology depth to integrate and scale hybrid mesh effectively.
Join us for an exclusive Executive Breakfast Roundtable where we will explore three key areas:
- How the security landscape and buyer priorities are evolving, driving demand for unified, hybrid mesh architectures.
- Why hybrid mesh matters now: simplifying security operations, reducing risks, and supporting enterprise-wide resilience.
- How enterprises can turn the vision of hybrid mesh into practical adoption.
Sakshi Grover | IDC Asia/Pacific
Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Services
Sakshi Grover
Sakshi Grover is a senior research manager for IDC Asia/Pacific Cybersecurity Services, supporting its research and client engagement activities across Asia/Pacific markets. Additionally, she serves as the lead security analyst for IDC India. Sakshi is responsible for delivering syndicated custom research and consulting engagements on next-generation emerging and disruptive technologies. Her tasks include developing and socializing IDC’s point of view within security services, covering both legacy and modern cybersecurity technologies. Her role involves close collaboration with technology vendors and buyers, developing market insights, and providing research, consulting, and advisory services in the fields of security software and services. This includes partnering on research efforts with relevant country analysts in the local IDC offices. Sakshi’s views on security have been quoted in numerous publications, such as the Economic Times, Business Standard, Data Quest, CRN, and others.
Sakshi has a wealth of experience in the IT space, managing diverse areas such as research and analysis, business development, product management, and client-centric engagements. Before joining IDC, Sakshi was a principal analyst at Gartner Inc., where she managed research on datacenter infrastructure and cloud security products. Prior to Gartner, she was associated with Accenture and Wipro Ltd., where she was responsible for business development across EMEA and Asia/Pacific markets within the TMT space.
Event Sessions
Saturday, August 30 2025 10:40 am | Location:
IDC Keynote: Evolving Threats, Advanced Defenses: Cybersecurity in the Next Era
The cybersecurity landscape is entering a new era, defined by rapid technological disruption, shifting global dynamics, and the relentless pace of digital transformation. As threats grow in sophistication and scale, India finds itself at a pivotal point, both as one of the fastest-growing digital economies and as a target in an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment.
India’s growth story offers a unique backdrop. As enterprises expand and modernize, the security agenda is no longer just about defense but about enabling trust, resilience, and business continuity. According to IDC’s recent study, 86% of enterprises in India faced ransomware attacks in the past 12 months, with healthcare, IT/ITeS, manufacturing, and BFSI among the most frequently targeted sectors.
Amidst this evolving attack landscape, security spending patterns are shifting, with organizations prioritizing integrated platforms, AI-driven defenses, and managed services to improve resilience. At the same time, buyers are demanding greater commercial flexibility in an environment that often feels overwhelming, where confusion and ambiguity persist over where best to direct security investments. This is driving increased focus on managed security services, cloud-native application protection (CNAPP), and OT security solutions as top enterprise priorities.
This keynote will examine the rise of AI as both an offensive and defensive force, the implications of global tensions on cyber risk, the ways in which buying behavior is changing, and the innovations at scale that are reshaping enterprise security strategies. In this session, we will look at the intersection of evolving threats, advanced defenses, and the role of AI-led innovation in defining the next era of cybersecurity for India.
Saturday, August 30 2025 8:30 am | Location:
Exclusive Roundtable: Modern Security Architectures: From Fragmented Tools to Hybrid Mesh Strategies
In today’s hyperconnected world, enterprises face a growing challenge of securing fragmented tools and environments that increase complexity, costs, and risk. Hybrid mesh architectures unify security across users, networks, cloud, and OT environments—enabling consistent policy enforcement and visibility at scale.
According to IDC’s 2025 Asia/Pacific Security Study, 45% of Indian enterprises identified unified visibility across all tools and environments with centralized policy and access management as their top priority in an integrated cybersecurity platform—precisely what hybrid mesh strategies are designed to deliver. To truly realize this vision, enterprises require the right balance of strategic guidance, operational execution, and technology depth to integrate and scale hybrid mesh effectively.
Join us for an exclusive Executive Breakfast Roundtable where we will explore three key areas:
- How the security landscape and buyer priorities are evolving, driving demand for unified, hybrid mesh architectures.
- Why hybrid mesh matters now: simplifying security operations, reducing risks, and supporting enterprise-wide resilience.
- How enterprises can turn the vision of hybrid mesh into practical adoption.
Friday, August 29 2025 7:00 pm | Location:
Defend Against Cyberattacks and Emerging Threats
Cyberattacks are growing more sophisticated, leveraging AI-powered tools, supply chain vulnerabilities, and trusted third parties to bypass traditional defenses. For digital leaders, the challenge is no longer if a breach will occur, but when.
This discussion will explore how enterprises are harnessing cutting-edge zero-trust capabilities to proactively anticipate and contain breaches, while ensuring business continuity and boosting stakeholder confidence. As per IDC’s Asia/Pacific Security Study 2025, 59% of enterprises in India cited simplified management and unified visibility for easier compliance reporting as a top reason for adopting a unified platform approach. The goal is to reduce the blast radius of attacks, simplify oversight, and strengthen resilience in an era of escalating cyber risk. Against this backdrop, we’d like to hear from you on how your organizations are approaching breach readiness, containment, and zero-trust adoption in practice.
Our Partners
Tenable
Tenable® is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business risk for more than 44,000 customers around the globe. Learn more at tenable.com.
Nopalcyber
Checkmarx
Checkmarx is the leader in application security and ensures that enterprises worldwide can secure their application development from code to cloud. Our consolidated platform and services address the needs of enterprises by improving security and reducing TCO, while simultaneously building trust between AppSec, developers, and CISOs. At Checkmarx, we believe it’s not just about finding risk, but remediating it across the entire application footprint and software supply chain with one seamless process for all relevant stakeholders.
We are honored to serve more than 1,800 customers, which includes 40 percent of all Fortune 100 companies including Siemens, Airbus, SalesForce, Stellantis,
Adidas, Wal-Mart and Sanofi.
A10 Networks
NTT Data India
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future.
ColorTokens
ColorTokens, the premier enterprise microsegmentation provider, specializes in making organizations “breach ready” by halting the lateral spread of ransomware and malware within intricate network infrastructures using its innovative ColorTokens Xshield™ platform. The platform visualizes traffic patterns between workloads, devices, and users, enabling organizations to enforce granular micro-perimeters, swiftly isolate critical assets, and respond to breaches effectively. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2024 evaluation, ColorTokens safeguards businesses by thwarting ransomware and malware attacks, ensuring significant savings in potential disruptions.
Barracuda
At Barracuda we strive to make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-first, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data, and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.
Venue
Global influencers shared powerful stories of how they confronted challenges — and created opportunities from them
Le Meridien, Gurugam
Sector 26 M.G. Road, Gurgaon Delhi, Border, Gurugram, Haryana 122002
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Gated Assets
Analyst Spotlight Security and AI Investments: A Symbiotic Approach to Future-Proofing Organizations
In an era defined by rapid digital transformation and an ever-evolving threat landscape, organizations must rethink their approaches to security and innovation. The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity has emerged as a critical nexus for businesses aiming to protect their assets while enabling growth and resilience. By strategically combining investments in AI technologies with robust security frameworks, organizations can unlock new levels of efficiency, protection, and trust.
Sakshi Grover
IDC Asia/Pacific
Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Products and Services
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CXO Spotlight Draft Telecom Cybersecurity Rules 2025 – Constitutional and Jurisprudential Implications
Analysis of the Draft Telecommunications (Telecom Cyber Security) Amendment Rules, 2025 correctly identifies this as a paradigm shift in India’s digital regulatory landscape. Building upon your observations, this comprehensive analysis examines the profound constitutional, legal, and practical implications of these transformative rules.
Gaurav Duggal
Jio Platforms Limited
SVP – AI & IT Security
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Partner Spotlight Why India Must Prioritise Exposure Management Amid Rising Cyberattacks and AI-Driven Threats
Between May 7 and 10, 2025, over 650 cyber incidents were recorded in India. Hacktivist groups leveraged a blend of advanced malware and deceptive social engineering to infiltrate key Indian sectors such as government IT, healthcare and education. Such attacks on central and state governments can halt public services, compromise sensitive data and threaten public safety.
India is simultaneously making commendable digital investments across infrastructure, manufacturing and critical sectors. With the digital economy projected to contribute 20% to the GDP by 2026, the benefits of digital transformation are clear, but so are the risks. As digitisation accelerates, cyber threats are increasing in parallel. On average, India faces 702 potential security threats every minute, with healthcare emerging as the most vulnerable and frequently targeted.
Rajnish Gupta
Tenable India
Managing Director & Country Manager
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Partner Spotlight Why SSL Decryption Can Backfire in DDoS Mitigation
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, one question keeps surfacing:
Should we decrypt SSL/TLS traffic to detect malicious activity?
While it might sound like a good idea, SSL decryption in DDoS mitigation often causes more harm than good. The trade-offs — from privacy concerns to performance slowdowns — can far outweigh any security benefit.
Tarun Verma
A10 Networks
Systems Engineer Manager
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