{"id":986904,"date":"2026-01-21T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986904"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:15:57","slug":"ai-fuelled-cyber-threats-expose-indias-deep-security-talent-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/ai-fuelled-cyber-threats-expose-indias-deep-security-talent-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-fuelled cyber threats expose India\u2019s deep security talent crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India just doesn\u2019t have enough skilled engineers to consistently protect vital assets such as power grids, telecom networks, banks and government systems from cyber attackers, whose capabilities have grown more sophisticated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>Industry stakeholders and analysts that Mint spoke with said that India has about 350,000 professionals working in cybersecurity across various roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India just doesn\u2019t have enough skilled engineers to consistently protect vital assets such as power grids, telecom networks, banks and government systems from cyber attackers, whose capabilities have grown more sophisticated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Industry stakeholders and analysts that Mint spoke with said that India has about 350,000 professionals working in cybersecurity across various roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986904","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}