Kiran Zachariah, Vice President, IoT Business Solutions, Subex

“We expect 2020 to be a year of decisions. As the number of breaches increases and more state-backed and non-state actors enter the picture, we will have to scale up our cybersecurity game in the country. I see a significant increase in the budgets allocated for pro-active cybersecurity measures, staff training, audits and in procuring and deploying cybersecurity solutions. We have to remember that in 2019, we saw a steep rise in the investments made by malware developers globally. In the second half of the year, we saw those investments translate into more sophisticated cyber attacks. This trend will continue in 2020 and we need to be prepared for that.”