{"id":1028284,"date":"2026-08-12T10:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028284"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:54:48","slug":"ai-can-be-both-cybersecurity-risk-and-counterweight-major-enabler-for-agri-credit-idfc-first-bank-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/ai-can-be-both-cybersecurity-risk-and-counterweight-major-enabler-for-agri-credit-idfc-first-bank-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can be both cybersecurity risk and counterweight, major enabler for agri credit: IDFC First Bank CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 11 (ANI): Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as both a cybersecurity risk and a potential counterweight to growing cyber threats, and can become a major enabler for credit for agriculture according to V Vaidyanathan, MD and CEO of IDFC First Bank. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of FIBAC 2026 on Tuesday, Vaidyanathan called cyber security &#8220;a very serious issue&#8221; stressing the need for more vigilance particularly because of the &#8220;unknown unknowns&#8221; that could emerge as technology evolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 11 (ANI): Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as both a cybersecurity risk and a potential counterweight to growing cyber threats, and can become a major enabler for credit for agriculture according to V Vaidyanathan, MD and CEO of IDFC First Bank. Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of FIBAC 2026 on Tuesday, Vaidyanathan called cyber security &#8220;a very serious issue&#8221; stressing the need for more vigilance particularly because of the &#8220;unknown unknowns&#8221; that could emerge as technology evolves.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028284","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=1028284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028379,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028284\/revisions\/1028379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}