India, May 9 -- As tensions escalate along the India-Pakistan border following Operation Sindoor (Indian retaliation to the assault on innocent tourists by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists in Pahalgam), the IT industry is on edge.

One, the larger impact is on India's booming IT outsourcing; and two, the big, mid-tier, and small IT services providers need to secure the interests of their clients across industries.

They need to plan for a digital business continuity strategy for both domestic and global clients so that, in the event of retaliatory attacks from Pakistan, the delivery of services is uninterrupted.

But far from the frontlines, inside glass-walled offices from Bengaluru to Hyderabad to Gurugram to Pune and Chennai, the mood is ...