{"id":1002965,"date":"2026-04-15T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002965"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:39:46","slug":"indian-companies-turn-to-outsourced-cybersecurity-to-bridge-talent-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/indian-companies-turn-to-outsourced-cybersecurity-to-bridge-talent-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian companies turn to outsourced cybersecurity to bridge talent gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a stopgap response to the issue of a cybersecurity talent shortage is fast turning into a major and fast-growing market, with Indian companies rapidly opting for outsourced cybersecurity operations, experts told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The pressure is highest on mid-sized firms as most companies lack the budget, talent and resources to build and run full-scale security operations centres. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout half of the organisations we are seeing are considering outsourcing their security operations centre (SOC) functions,\u201d said Adrian Hia, APAC head at cybersecurity and anti-virus provider Kaspersky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a stopgap response to the issue of a cybersecurity talent shortage is fast turning into a major and fast-growing market, with Indian companies rapidly opting for outsourced cybersecurity operations, experts told ET. The pressure is highest on mid-sized firms as most companies lack the budget, talent and resources to build and run full-scale security operations centres. \u201cAbout half of the organisations we are seeing are considering outsourcing their security operations centre (SOC) functions,\u201d said Adrian Hia, APAC head at cybersecurity and anti-virus provider Kaspersky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}