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India witnessed 15.9 lakh cybersecurity incidents in 2023, a figure that swelled to 29.4 lakh by 2025, according to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). Today, threat actors are leveraging generative AI and autonomous agents to increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks. In an era where breach timelines are measured in minutes, organisations can no longer rely on traditional perimeter controls or manual Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) processes alone to block incoming threats. Prevention and detection remain vital, but they are no longer sufficient on their own. The real battleground has shifted: what happens when protective measures fail?
This reality demands a fundamental shift toward comprehensive cyber resilience. Indian regulatory bodies have taken decisive note. CERT-In, alongside sector regulators like the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), and Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), is actively directing enterprises to embed resilience directly into their governance frameworks. Following CERT-In’s May 2026 guidelines on mitigating AI-assisted cyber threats, one truth stands out: true resilience cannot be bought in a single, monolithic platform. Achieving it requires an integrated ecosystem of best-of-breed specialized capabilities across the tech stack, sharing real-time telemetry to accelerate decision-making and automate response.Cyber resilience starts at the storage layer – the ultimate last line of defense. A secure data foundation requires robust identity controls, policy-driven operations, continuous compliance checks, and immutable, indelible recovery points. To withstand modern ransomware, protected snapshots must be architected so that even an attacker with elevated administrative access cannot alter, tamper with, or delete them.
From there, resilience depends on connected detection. Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) tooling remains essential because it separates signal from noise and identifies malicious activity allowing action to be taken quickly. Its value increases significantly when integrated with the data environment itself. When telemetry is shared across the broader ecosystem, organisations can correlate threats faster and automatically trigger protected recovery points when anomalies appear.
Even so, organisations should plan on the basis that some attacks will get through. That is now the baseline assumption. In this world, the defining measure of resilience is not whether or not a breach can be stopped, but how quickly critical services can be restored safely and with confidence after a breach. India’s financial regulators give high importance to recoverability. The RBI, for instance, requires regulated financial entities to define recovery time and recovery-point objectives, test disaster recovery for critical systems at least twice a year, and periodically restore backups. Meanwhile, SEBI’s cyber resilience framework mandates scenario-based recovery testing for all entities and offsite “golden images” of critical systems for some others.
Recovery therefore needs to be treated as a core business capability, not a back-end IT process. An isolated recovery environment, kept beyond the reach of attackers, gives organisations a safe haven to restore from. It is crucial organisations are prepared. This includes understanding the critical services that support the business together with the data and infrastructure that support them – essentially the Minimum Viable Company. Having a recovery plan that has been tested is essential, this testing should be a regular activity so that everyone knows what to do and the role they play when stress levels are high. These steps can reduce the likelihood of a serious incident with a prolonged impact on the business.
This is also why recovery speed has become such an important benchmark. In an environment where attack timelines are compressing, restoring operations in hours rather than days or weeks can determine whether the threat remains containable or becomes existential. The organisations that will be best prepared are the ones that have built for rapid, verified recovery before they need it.
The implication for leaders is clear. Cyber resilience is not about betting on a single platform to stop every threat. It is about orchestrating an integrated ecosystem of security, detection, governance and recovery capabilities that can work together under pressure. Because in the AI era, the question is not whether defences will be tested. It is whether the organisation can recover fast enough, cleanly enough, and confidently enough when they are.
The author is Sudharsan Aravamuthan, Head of Systems Engineering, Everpure India.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely of the author and ETCISO does not necessarily subscribe to it. ETCISO shall not be responsible for any damage caused to any person/organization directly or indirectly.
