AI is now the digital immune system for businesses

AMIT JAJU
GLOBAL PARTNER/ SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR - INDIA, ANKURA CONSULTING

“At Ankura, AI sits at the core of our threat intelligence and incident-response architecture. Our proprietary systems integrate large language models with anomaly-detection pipelines to identify zero- day exploits, lateral movements, and data-exfiltration patterns far earlier than traditional SIEM-based tools. By fusing telemetry from endpoints, network logs, and cloud workloads into behavioral baselines, AI continuously recalibrates to detect subtle deviations indicating compromise. When flagged, automated playbooks orchestrate rapid containment and evidence preservation, cutting mean-time-to-respond by over 60%. AI is only as strong as its governance.
 
Every algorithm we deploy is subject to human oversight, model-risk assessment, and data-minimization protocols aligned with the DPDP Act, GDPR, and sector-specific frameworks. We apply privacy-preserving analytics, tokenization, differential privacy, and federated learning to ensure insights without exposure. Our models are explainable by design—each alert is accompanied by contextual reasoning, enabling investigators to validate outcomes.

Resilience requires collaboration. We partner with cloud hyperscalers, CERT-In, global threat-intel exchanges, academic labs, and AI- security startups to develop models tuned to Indian threat landscapes, where multilingual phishing and supply-chain breaches are rising. We also align with law firms and regulators to ensure rapid response meets admissible evidence standards. Cybersecurity fails without trust. We ensure transparency through audit trails, model-explainability dashboards, and red-team validation. AI is no longer optional—it is the immune system of digital enterprise defense.”