The Rise Of AI-Led Cybersecurity Operations In Indian Enterprises

 

Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity operations across Indian enterprises, and Diwakar Dayal, Managing Director & Area Vice President for India & SAARC at SentinelOne, explains why traditional Security Operations Centers (SOCs) must evolve to keep pace with AI-powered cyber threats. He highlights how modern SOCs are shifting from manual, alert-driven workflows to AI-led operations that unify visibility across endpoints, cloud environments, identities, and applications. By automating routine investigations and responses, organizations can enable security teams to focus on high-priority threats while strengthening resilience against increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Dayal also emphasizes that AI is changing the role of cybersecurity professionals rather than replacing them. As autonomous SOCs become more common, analysts will spend less time triaging alerts and more time supervising AI systems, refining security playbooks, ensuring data quality, and managing AI governance. He notes that Indian enterprises must address technology debt, fragmented security stacks, governance gaps, and workforce upskilling to fully realize the benefits of AI-driven cybersecurity while staying ahead of machine-speed attacks and identity-focused threats.

To build a prevention-first security strategy, organizations must adopt unified visibility, integrate AI into security operations from the outset, and automate detection and response across their digital infrastructure. Dayal stresses that cybersecurity should be treated as a business enabler rather than a compliance exercise, helping enterprises proactively reduce risk while supporting innovation and growth. Read the full conversation: The Rise of AI-Led Cybersecurity Operations in Indian Enterprises.