Indian companies plan to increase IT security spending

A survey reveals a striking 93 per cent of Indian respondents plan on increasing IT security spending this year, the highest among countries surveyed and well above the global average, which is 78 per cent.

Each one of us has at least once received a phishing mail. That's the mail that corporate IT teams strictly warn us against, but at times, is too tempting to resist, thanks to the offer, notice, discount which we can unlock by clicking that link. Most times we resist. If you got a mail from your CEO asking you to make a remittance, will you click? The chief financial officer of an Indian company did, which led to the hacking of their systems. Clearly, cyber crime perpetrators are way ahead of security teams and Indian companies are waking up to this reality finally.