India's rapidly expanding financial ecosystem faces a growing cybersecurity challenge. While large banks have invested heavily in protecting their systems, fintech companies and non-banking financial institutions remain vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated attacks. Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of cybercrime, allowing attackers to identify weaknesses faster, at significantly lower costs and on a much larger scale.

Anirban Chowdhury speaks to Yash Kakadia, founder of Security Brigade, about how these attacks work, the vulnerabilities within financial technology infrastructure, the limitations of compliance-driven security, and whether India's regulators and financial institutions can keep pace with an accelerating threat.

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India's rapidly expanding financial ecosystem faces a growing cybersecurity challenge. While large banks have invested heavily in protecting their systems, fintech companies and non-banking financial institutions remain vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated attacks. Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of cybercrime, allowing attackers to identify weaknesses faster, at significantly lower costs and on a much larger scale.
Anirban Chowdhury speaks to Yash Kakadia, founder of Security Brigade, about how these attacks work, the vulnerabilities within financial technology infrastructure, the limitations of compliance-driven security, and whether India's regulators and financial institutions can keep pace with an accelerating threat.
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