India, July 15 -- The recent surge in hacker activity in India comes in light of heightened geopolitical tensions at the nations' border. International hacker groups are targeting crucial infrastructures of the country like power grid, transportation, defence, telecom, manufacturing plants, and pharma industries. At this sensitive situation, industry veterans have commented on how India needs to work on its cyber infrastructure and assure that attacks will not be able to evade the country's security system.

Vikas Bhonsle, CEO at Crayon India

"Cyberattacks are nothing new and have existed for decades now and India is no different as it is among the top 5 most targeted countries for Cyberattacks. With the awakening of COVID, hackers got a...