India’s major IT services firms are widening cybersecurity defences to cover AI applications, APIs and agents in addition to employees and devices. The shift follows data breaches disclosed in August at TCS, HCLTech, Cognizant and Hexaware Technologies. Companies are extending Zero Trust principles, under which no user, application or device is trusted by default, to AI systems that connect to enterprise data. Infosys is anchoring its approach in security for AI and Zero Trust and working with partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and Microsoft. Mphasis is combining Zero Trust with continuous monitoring, threat hunting and AI-assisted detection while strengthening AI governance and access controls. Persistent Systems has introduced AI data governance policies that classify sensitive information and limit what can be processed by AI tools, along with red-teaming for prompt injection and data leakage.
India’s major IT services firms are widening cybersecurity defences to cover AI applications, APIs and agents in addition to employees and devices. The shift follows data breaches disclosed in August at TCS, HCLTech, Cognizant and Hexaware Technologies. Companies are extending Zero Trust principles, under which no user, application or device is trusted by default, to AI systems that connect to enterprise data. Infosys is anchoring its approach in security for AI and Zero Trust and working with partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and Microsoft. Mphasis is combining Zero Trust with continuous monitoring, threat hunting and AI-assisted detection while strengthening AI governance and access controls. Persistent Systems has introduced AI data governance policies that classify sensitive information and limit what can be processed by AI tools, along with red-teaming for prompt injection and data leakage.