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Costs of Data Breaches Rose Steeply in India, says IBM
The Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021 by IBM identified that there were an average of 27,966 records breached between May 2020 and March 2021 in India. Organisations with over 50 percent remote work adoption took 271 days as the average mean time to identify a data breach, 63 days longer than the average mean time to identify a data breach in organisations with less than 50 percent of remote work adoption.
Rs. 16.5 crores was the average total cost of a data breach in India, which was an increase of 17.85 percent from 2020. The cost per lost or stolen record was Rs. 5,900, an increase of 6.85 percent from the previous year. The top three industries impacted when calculating the cost per record in India were the financial sector at Rs. 5,536, the education sector at Rs. 3,139, and the public sector at Rs. 2,100.
To overcome the rapid challenges to security following the shift to a hybrid work environment, some companies are switching to new types of security models like the perimeter model and zero trust model to ensure better safety of their systems. Prashant Bhatkal, Security Software Sales Leader of IBM Technology Sales, India, caught up with Gadgets 360 to explain this in greater detail.
Will Zero trust help reduce the data breaches?
With the numbers and costs associated with data breaches skyrocketing, organisations have been switching to modern approaches to security including adoption of the zero trust approach. The report indicated that companies that adopted a zero trust security approach were better equipped to deal with data breaches. Organisations in India who are in the mature stages of adopting zero trust deployment witnessed Rs. 13.1 crores as the total cost of data breach as compared to organisations who are in the early stage of adoption and witnessed Rs.19.8 crores as the total cost of data breach.
IBM’s Bhatkal considers the zero trust approach as a philosophy or an approach to how organisations structure their cybersecurity programme according to three guiding principles: enabling least privilege access, never trust, always verify, and assume breach.
To help organisations tackle zero trust and make it actionable, IBM has created zero trust blueprints to infuse security into common business initiatives. These blueprints offer guidance on the technology capabilities needed to achieve zero trust in specific situations, including preserving customer privacy, securing the hybrid and remote workforce, reducing the risk of insider threat, and protecting the hybrid cloud.
‘Implementing zero trust is a marathon’
Organisations planning on transitioning from one cybersecurity strategy to another should work with their existing security capabilities and gradually migrate to a zero trust model. Bhatkal said that it is important to assess current security gaps for a specific use case scenario against zero trust framework and align priorities while addressing the organisation’s unique security risks, industry compliance requirements, and investment strategy. “As Forrester says, implementing zero trust is a marathon, not a sprint – a gradual process. Zero trust framework requires integration across multiple security domains, even as security programmes continue to operate in silos. Businesses need to know where to start or how to merge their existing solutions into their zero-trust security strategy,” he said.
As per the report, organisations with a zero trust approach were also subject to breaches, meaning that this approach is not fully breach-proof. The zero trust framework starts with an assumption of compromise, then continuously validates the conditions for connection between users, data, and resources to determine authorisation and need. “While organisations embark on their zero trust journey, they also need to ensure how they are looking at their existing security technology and have a gradual approach to zero trust with each security aspect of the organisation taken into consideration holistically,” said Bhatkal.
“At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games,” Haiyan Zhang, GM, Xbox Gaming AI, said in a blog post. “This partnership will bring together: Inworld’s expertise in working with generative AI models for character development, Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions including Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play, and Team Xbox’s strengths in revolutionizing accessible and responsible creator tools for all developers.”
The aforementioned AI design copilot is a toolset that will help game designers turn prompts into scripts and dialogue trees. In contrast, the character runtime will enable dynamically generated plot beats and quests. We’ve already seen heavy AI integration in games by way of procedural generation — a more recent example being the 1000+ planets in Starfield. Not to mention, enemy AI has been around for way longer.
Inworld made headlines in August when it launched a modded story mode for Grand Theft Auto V, Sentient Streets, in which players had to investigate the rise of a bizarre AI-worshipping cult — a segment loaded with characters that spoke in AI-generated dialogue, on the fly. The mod was later taken down by publisher Take-Two, leaving a permanent strike on the creator Bloc’s YouTube channel. As per The Verge, Inworld’s AI technology can also be used for narration in top-down RPGs to warn players about any events awaiting off-screen and respond to questions like we’ve seen in the past year with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Microsoft has also been heavily banking on artificial intelligence, having made a $10 billion (about Rs. 83,254 crore) investment in OpenAI. The company has also integrated AI tools into its popular suite of services and also added an AI copilot to Windows.
Despite being a Microsoft-affiliated AI toolset, it would be interesting to see whether titles using them will be allowed to thrive on other platforms. In July, Valve claimed that it would be cracking down on games that included AI-generated assets if the developer didn’t own the copyright to the piece of art. For the uninitiated, when you insert a prompt to create something in AI, the software simply repurposes existing assets found online and mushes them together — basically stealing from other artists and writers without appropriate commercial licenses. Infringing them would lead to the game not being distributed on Steam, forcing the developers to seek proper licenses for the asset by reaching out to the AI companies involved. It’s unclear how Microsoft’s partnership will play out — as long as AI content is being used as a catalyst to innovate and create something new, it should be fine.
In a post on X shared by BSNL’s Andhra Pradesh (@bsnl_ap_circle) unit, the company confirmed that BSNL users can upgrade their older 2G or 3G SIMs to a 4G SIM for free. Not only will the upgrade be free, but a promotional image shared with the post suggests that users who opt for the upgrade will also receive 4GB of free data that will be valid for three months. It is speculated that BSNL is aiming to boost its upcoming 4G services with this offer. The announcement was first spotted by Telecom Talk.
To access the free data offer and the free upgrade, BSNL users are requested to get in touch with executives at BSNL’s Customer Service Centre, franchisee or retailer stores, or contact one of their Direct Selling Agents (DSA). The promo image also adds in a finer print that the offer is available with certain terms and conditions, but hasn’t detailed any, so far.
Reliance’s Jio recently launched the 4G-supported Bharat B1 feature phone in India. The handset is priced at Rs. 1,299 in India. Alongside 4G connectivity, the phone comes with JioCinema and JioSaavn applications pre-installed.
The Jio Bharat B1 is equipped with the JioPay application, which is said to allow users to make UPI payments. Aiming to increase accessibility, the phone supports 23 languages overall, including multiple regional languages.
Realme, via Weibo, announced the arrival of the Realme GT 5 Pro in China. The display of the handset is confirmed to offer 3000 nits peak brightness. It has also been teased to offer heat dissipation with a surface area of around 10,000mm2. It is confirmed to ship with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The post doesn’t specify the exact launch date of the smartphone, however, given the release of the teasers, the launch could be just around the corner.
The Realme GT 5 Pro has been in the news a lot lately. It is expected to feature a 6.78-inch (1,264×2,780 pixels) AMOLED display and is tipped to come in 8GB, 12GB, and 16GB RAM options along with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB inbuilt storage options.
For optics, the Realme GT 5 Pro is said to have a triple rear camera unit comprising two 50-megapixel sensors and an 8-megapixel shooter at the rear. The camera setup might include a Sony LYTIA LYT808 sensor, an OmniVision OV08D10 secondary sensor, and a Sony IMX890 telephoto sensor. For selfies, there could be a 32-megapixel sensor at the front. It is said to carry a 5,400mAh battery with support for 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging.
The Realme GT 5 Pro is expected to come with upgrades over Realme GT 5. The latter was launched in China in August with a price tag of CNY 2,999 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
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