Day: July 4, 2025

Empowering Homes with Indigenized, Intelligent, and Future-Ready Innovations At the Smart Home Expo 2025, CP PLUS once again demonstrated why it remains the leading player in India’s security and surveillance landscape. With a powerful showcase of AI-powered, indigenized smart home solutions, CP PLUS captivated audiences, industry experts, and technology enthusiasts alike, reaffirming its commitment to securing India’s connected future – one intelligent home at a time. The Smart Home Expo, one of India’s largest and most influential platforms for smart living innovations, served as the ideal stage for CP PLUS to unveil its newest range of smart locks, video door phones, intrusion detection systems, and app-based control platforms, all designed, developed, and manufactured in Bharat. From luxury apartments to independent homes and gated communities, CP PLUS’ next-gen solutions cater to the growing demand for intelligent, user-friendly, and locally engineered home security systems. Smart is the New Secure: CP PLUS Redefining Modern Indian Homes As Indian homes get smarter, the need for seamless integration between safety, convenience, and control is more pressing than ever. CP PLUS addressed this very need by showcasing a lineup of products that are not only technologically advanced but also thoughtfully engineered for Indian lifestyles and environments. With their ‘Designed in Bharat, Made for Bharat’ approach, CP PLUS smart home solutions ensure high performance, ease of use, and reliability, without compromising on aesthetics or affordability. The CP PLUS pavilion at the expo garnered attention not just for its cutting-edge solutions but also for the presence of Anup Nair, President – Sales at CP PLUS, who remarked, “AI is fundamentally reshaping how we experience security and automation at home. As India moves into its Tech-Age, CP PLUS is committed to delivering smart, indigenized innovations that empower every Indian household. Our mission is to redefine trust in the digital age, where safety, comfort, and intelligence go hand in hand.” He further emphasized that CP PLUS’s in-house R&D capabilities, strong domestic manufacturing ecosystem, and AI-first vision position it uniquely to meet the evolving needs of Indian consumers in the age of connected living. Powering the Smart Home Movement with Indigenized Innovation India’s smart home market is projected to witness exponential growth in the coming years, fueled by rising urbanization, increased smartphone penetration, and growing consumer awareness about home automation and safety. CP PLUS has anticipated this shift and is investing significantly in AI, IoT integration, and indigenous manufacturing to support the movement. What sets CP PLUS apart is its ability to localize global technology, developing products that meet regional compliance norms, linguistic preferences, climatic conditions, and cost expectations, while staying true to world-class standards. AI is fundamentally reshaping how we experience security and automation at home. As India moves into its Tech-Age, CP PLUS is committed to delivering smart, indigenized innovations that empower every Indian household. Our mission is to redefine trust in the digital age, where safety, comfort, and intelligence go hand in hand Anup Nair, President – Sales at CP PLUS The CP PLUS booth saw massive footfall from architects, home automation partners, real estate developers, and tech-savvy homeowners, all looking for smarter, scalable, and more secure living solutions. Live demonstrations of facial recognition-enabled door phones, real-time app-based alerts for intrusion attempts, and smart lock integrations left visitors impressed and inquisitive. With its presence at the Smart Home Expo 2025, CP PLUS reaffirmed its mission to secure every Indian home with intelligent, accessible, and indigenously developed technology. As smart living becomes the norm and not the niche, the brand stands as a powerful enabler of the future, bridging the gap between innovation and trust, control and comfort, intelligence and simplicity. Read More

Attackers are using highly customizable approaches targeting individuals in an organization Fortinet®, the global cybersecurity company driving the convergence of networking and security, recently announced the findings of a new IDC survey that reveals a sharp escalation in both the volume and sophistication of cyber threats across India and the Asia Pacific region. The study, commissioned by Fortinet, highlights how attackers are rapidly adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to scale stealthy, fast-moving attacks – leaving security teams struggling to detect and respond in time. The results reveal a threat landscape that is not only evolving in complexity but also shifting toward gaps in visibility, governance, and infrastructure, posing greater challenges to overstretched cyber teams. AI joins the attacker’s arsenal – and most firms have felt it ● The rise of AI-enabled cybercrime is no longer theoretical. Nearly 72% of organizations In India said that they have encountered AI-powered cyber threats in the past year. These threats are scaling fast, with a 2X increase reported by 70% and a 3X increase by 12% of organizations ● This new class of AI-powered threats are harder to detect and often exploit weaknesses in human behaviour, misconfigurations, and identity systems. In India, the top AI-driven threats reported include AI-assisted credential stuffing and brute force attacks, Deepfake impersonation in business email compromise (BEC), AI-powered malware (Polymorphic malware), Automated reconnaissance of attack surfaces, and AI-generated phishing emails. ● Despite the rise in AI-driven attacks, only 14% of organizations say they are very confident in their ability to defend against them. Meanwhile, 36% admit that AI threats are outpacing their detection capabilities, and 21% organizations in India have no ability to track AI-powered threats at all – exposing a significant preparedness gap. Cyber risk is now a constant, not a crisis ● The cybersecurity landscape is no longer defined by episodic crises – it is a state of constant exposure. Organizations in India are increasingly vulnerable to threats that operate in the shadows. The most reported threats include software supply chain attacks (64%), cloud vulnerabilities (60%), and Phishing (54%), Unpatched and Zero Day exploits (50%) and ransomware (44%). ● The most disruptive threats are no longer the most obvious. Topping the list are unpatched and zero-day exploits, followed closely by insider threats, cloud misconfigurations, software supply chain attacks, and human error. These threats are particularly damaging because they often go undetected by traditional defences, exploiting internal weaknesses and visibility gaps. As a result, these quieter, more complex risks are now viewed as more dangerous than well-known threats like ransomware or phishing. ● Traditional threats such as phishing and malware are still growing at a rate of ~10%, but this is comparatively modest – likely due to mature defences like endpoint protection and awareness training. In contrast, the fastest-rising threats include Ransomware (22%), Supply Chain Attacks (18%), insider treats (16%), cloud vulnerabilities (12%) and IOT/OT attacks (12%). These threats are scaling rapidly because they exploit gaps in governance, visibility, and system complexity – making them harder to detect and potentially more damaging when successful. ● The consequences are no longer limited to downtime. The top business impacts of cyberattacks include data theft and privacy violations (60%), loss of customer trust (50%), regulatory penalties (46%), and operational disruption (42%). Financial damage is also real: 56% of respondents experienced breaches that resulted in monetary loss, with one in five costing over US$500,000. The findings of this survey point to a growing need for AI-accelerated defence strategies across APJC. Organizations are facing a surge in stealthy, complex threats – from misconfigurations and insider activity to AI-enabled attacks – that bypass traditional detection methods. A shift toward integrated, risk-centric cybersecurity models is critical to staying ahead. In this new threat landscape, reactive security is no longer enough – predictive, intelligence- driven operations must become the norm Simon PiffResearch Vice-President, IDC Asia-Pacific Teams under pressure: Too few people, too many problems ● Security teams in India continue to face significant resource constraints. On average, just 7% of an organization’s workforce is dedicated to internal IT, and only 13% of that subset is focused on cybersecurity. That equates to less than one full-time cybersecurity professional for every 100 employees. ● Only 15% of organizations have a standalone Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and most (63%) continue to combine cybersecurity responsibilities with broader IT roles. Just 6% of organizations have specialized teams for functions like threat hunting and security operations. ● These lean teams are also facing mounting pressure from the surge in threats. The top challenges reported include overwhelming threat volume (54%), difficulty in retaining skilled cybersecurity talent (52%), and tool complexity (44%) – leading to burnout and fragmentation within cyber teams. Complexity is now the new battleground in cybersecurity – and AI is both the challenge and the frontline defence. As threats grow quieter and more coordinated, Fortinet is helping organizations across India stay ahead with a unified, platform-based approach that brings together visibility, automation, and resilience. In today’s threat environment, speed, simplicity, and strategy matter more than ever. Our focus is on helping customers shift from piecemeal defences to AI-powered security that’s built for scale and sophistication Vivek SrivastavaCountry Manager, India & SAARC,Fortinet Investment is rising, but still lagging behind risk ● Despite increased awareness, cybersecurity investment remains disproportionately low. On average, just 15% of IT budgets are allocated to cybersecurity, representing just over 1.4% of total revenue – a small fraction given the scale and severity of threats. ● However, Budgets are ticking up, with nearly 80% of organizations in India reporting an increase. However, most of these increases remain under 10%, suggesting that investment is still cautious. ● Organizations are increasingly shifting from infrastructure- heavy spending to more strategic investments. The top five priorities include identity security, network security, SASE/Zero Trust, cyber resilience, and cloud-native application protection – indicating a shift toward access-centric, risk-based security planning. ● However, critical areas such as OT/ IoT security, DevSecOps, and security training continue to receive limited funding – indicating a persistent lag in…