Microsoft India had launched a full-scale Cybersecurity Engagement Center (CSEC) in India. Located in Delhi, Microsoft says it will be first-of-its-kind center to bring together the company’s capabilities to foster deeper cybersecurity collaborations with public and private sector organizations to create a secure computing environment.
It already had a pilot project for about a year and over the last 12 months, the Microsoft cybersecurity engagement team says it met with over 100 organisations in India. And, based on those conversations, it has observed three common IT environment challenges for cybersecurity namely, unmanaged and unregulated IT assets usage, procurement and maintenance; poor knowledge of cyber hygiene among users within organizations; inability of companies to timely monitor, detect and remove cyber threats.
The CSEC in Delhi becomes the seventh center in the world and it is also said to function as a satellite to the company’s Redmond Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). Besides, the company has also rolled out a nationwide campaign to