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Security consciousness has to beryllium a continuous enactment and is everyone’s responsibility, Maharajan Suriyanarayan, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice-President-IT, Navitas Life Sciences, said successful Chennai connected Friday (February 13, 2026) at The Hindu Tech Summit 2026. The lawsuit is hosted by The Hindu, presented by VIT, and co-presented Sify Technologies.
While speaking astatine the league titled ‘Beyond Compliance: Leveraging ISO 27001 for Integrated Data Security Management’, helium said awareness astir information has been created implicit a play of clip by implementing ISO 27001.
Speaking astir ways to guarantee that information evolves and the steps to beryllium taken to person a security-aware civilization wrong an organisation, helium said: “Security consciousness has to beryllium created from apical to bottom, and determination is simply a request to beryllium alert of lawsuit information and ways to unafraid them. Different kinds of programs are essential. New threats are coming, and cognition astir specified threats needs to beryllium given, from extremity users to the apical management,” helium added.
Culture is not a signifier but much of a disciplined approach, Ram P., Executive Vice-President and Chief Information Officer, Virtusa Corporation, said. “We person besides enabled AI to show worker behaviour to spot if determination are immoderate aberrations,” helium added.
Balakumar M.N., Head, IT, Ucal Limited, said determination is request to person a continuous appraisal of security-related aspects arsenic well. “We should assess, reassess, and papers the process successful specified a mode that we cognize the basal causes and larn from it ... owed to volatile changes, beryllium it concern changes, instauration of caller policies, oregon changes wrong the organisation. It has to beryllium a cycle. Learn, unlearn, and relearn,” helium added.
Addressing a question connected what differentiates a certified organisation successful becoming a unafraid one, erstwhile determination is simply a rapidly evolving menace scenery specified arsenic AI, Sivaramakrishnan N., Senior Vice-President, Information Security and Chief Information Security Officer, M2P, said AI has been bringing astir accelerated changes. “Now, everyone wants to effort the Anthropic plugin. Whatever entree you give, power the blast radius,” helium said. While 1 tin beryllium allowed to dabble with a caller plugin, determination should beryllium power connected however galore get entree to it, whether it is approved by their head; the quality and sensitivity of the information has to beryllium monitored and it should beryllium a timed enactment arsenic well, helium added.
Mr. Ram said information is ever a balancing act. “We person deployed AI to way large incidents. We simulate them. We don’t hold for an incidental to happen. That way, we are protected. It has been a humongous situation to support up with [the developments of AI], to recognize the AI communicative of the organisation, to upskill ourselves,” helium added.
Suresh Vijayaraghavan, CTO, The Hindu, moderated the session.
