New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- In a move that signals India's shift from reactive cybersecurity to proactive cyber defence, the government on Friday said it is considering a new legal framework for cybersecurity amid increasing cyber threats using artificial intelligence.

"With AI becoming the norm, the nature of cyber threats is going to totally change.We also have to create a new legal framework for cybersecurity with all these challenges that we are facing today," Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters at the launch of AI & Cyber Threat Research Center at the India AI summit in New Delhi.

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel and US-based cloud security company Zscaler launched the research centre to advance national cyber resilience, pro...