{"id":901409,"date":"2025-01-31T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T02:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=901409"},"modified":"2025-01-31T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T02:47:09","slug":"strengthening-cybersecurity-for-fintech-smes-a-call-for-compliance-investment-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/31\/strengthening-cybersecurity-for-fintech-smes-a-call-for-compliance-investment-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening cybersecurity for fintech SMEs: A call for compliance, investment, collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute 30% of India\u2019s GDP and are the backbone of the Indian economy. As engines of growth, SMEs play a crucial role in India\u2019s ambition to become the world\u2019s third-largest economy by 2028. However, many fintech SMEs remain under-protected against emerging cyber threats. With fewer than 200 employees, they face heightened cyber risks due to limited financial resources, insufficient cybersecurity skills and technology. Gaps in defences, over-reliance on third-party vendors, and a lack of business continuity plans mean that Indian SMEs often struggle to implement adequate cybersecurity measures to defend against ransomware, phishing, and DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute 30% of India\u2019s GDP and are the backbone of the Indian economy. As engines of growth, SMEs play a crucial role in India\u2019s ambition to become the world\u2019s third-largest economy by 2028. However, many fintech SMEs remain under-protected against emerging cyber threats. With fewer than 200 employees, they face heightened cyber risks due to limited financial resources, insufficient cybersecurity skills and technology. Gaps in defences, over-reliance on third-party vendors, and a lack of business continuity plans mean that Indian SMEs often struggle to implement adequate cybersecurity measures to defend against ransomware, phishing, and DDoS [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901409","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=901409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}