Cybersecurity has officially moved out of the IT department and into the boardroom.
Recent reporting highlights that a majority of Indian business leaders now rank cyber breaches as the single biggest threat to business performance, surpassing operational, financial, and regulatory risks, according to a joint FICCI–EY survey reported by the Times of India.
This shift in perception reflects a growing realization across Indian enterprises: cyber incidents are no longer isolated security events. They are business-impacting failures with direct consequences for revenue, reputation, and continuity.
Indian organizations have undergone rapid digital expansion. Cloud adoption, third-party integrations, remote access, and accelerated modernization have become the norm across sectors such as banking, manufacturing, energy, and services.
While this transformation has unlocked efficiency and scale, it has also increased exposure. Attack surfaces are larger, environments are more distributed, and dependencies are more complex than they were even a few years ago.
At the same time, attackers have adapted. Rather than focusing solely on perimeter breaches, they now target identity, misconfigurations, and operational blind spots that emerge during digital growth.
The result is a steady rise in incidents that are harder to detect, slower to contain, and more damaging when discovered.
What stands out in the survey is not just awareness, but urgency.
Executives increasingly understand that cyber incidents affect:
Unlike traditional IT failures, cyber breaches often unfold quietly and are discovered late. By the time leadership is aware, impact has already occurred.
This delayed visibility is one of the reasons cyber risk now ranks alongside financial and operational threats at the executive level.
Despite increased investment in security tools, many organizations still operate with fragmented visibility.
Identity systems, cloud platforms, endpoints, and networks are often monitored separately. Alerts are generated in isolation, without sufficient context to understand how activity across systems connects.
This fragmentation creates blind spots that attackers exploit. Abnormal behavior that appears harmless in one system can represent a coordinated intrusion when viewed across the environment.
For leadership teams, this gap translates into uncertainty, not knowing whether security investments are actually reducing risk.
Reducing cyber risk at the business level requires more than adding tools. It requires connecting signals across the environment to understand how threats evolve in real time.
Seceon’s unified security platform correlates identity, endpoint, cloud, and network activity to provide continuous visibility into how access and behavior change across systems. This allows security teams to detect threats earlier and respond automatically before incidents escalate into business disruptions.
By focusing on behavior rather than isolated alerts, organizations gain:
For executives, this translates into measurable risk reduction rather than reactive incident response.
The rise of cyber breaches as a top business risk in India is not a perception problem. It is a reflection of reality.
As organizations continue to digitize, cyber resilience becomes inseparable from business resilience. The challenge is no longer recognizing that cyber risk exists, but ensuring visibility and response are strong enough to manage it before impact occurs.
For leadership teams, the question is no longer if cyber risk matters, but whether their security approach is equipped to manage it at scale.
