The Kaspersky cybersecurity firm is betting on India as a strategic growth market, recognizing the rapid digitalization of the country and the increase in cybersecurity needs, and aims to expand to local teams and strengthen collaborations between the sectors.
The Region of the General Manager for India in Kaspersky, Jaydeep Singh, shared that the company has tripled its workforce in the country in the last two years, with new hiring in sales, sales and support roles.
He also highlighted the presence of global research teams in India that monitor more than 900 advanced persistent threat groups (APT) daily.
“In the last two years, we have tripled our employee base in India … we have part of the global research team outside India that make threat hunting,” Singh told PTI on the sidelines of Gitex Asia 2025.
Great (Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team) plays a crucial role in Kaspersky’s global threat intelligence operations. Kaspersky is investing in digital footprint intelligence analysts (DFI) to reinforce services, including brand and demolition monitoring operations.
Kaspersky sees India as a key innovation center and plans to continue expanding its research resources and capabilities within the country.
“We are expanding quite a lot with respect to our key resources and to the researchers of the Indian geography,” said Singh.
The company emphasizes its commitment to build local talent and is actively collaborating with government agencies and private sector entities to improve consciousness and infrastructure of cyber security. Kaspersky is getting involved with state governments and nodal agencies such as Cert-In to develop cyber defense programs and training initiatives.
Singh also praised the Indian regulatory environment, highlighting the pragmatic nature of acts such as the Digital Personal Data Protection Law (DPDP) and the robust guidelines of agencies such as the RBI and Sebi. He anticipates more developments in AI regulation and expressed Kaspersky’s will to collaborate and provide information to policy formulators.
With a growing base of Internet users, the need for robust cyber technologies increases rapidly, as special to protect internet assets, mobile phones and operational technology systems (OT).
Kaspersky detects more than 450,000 unique malware samples daily, leveraging AI and automatic learning in its research and mitigation strategies.
Singh emphasized the need to create an “immune cybernetic world” where systems are highly resistant to violations, partly in IT and OT environments.
“What we are seeing in the last decade more or less is that the intensity of attacks against IT systems and OT systems has increased greatly. Therefore, we hope that cyber immunity as a concept will become Sternger and be more relevant.
“Then, Kaspersky is investing big in India. In the last 2 years, we have increased our commitment almost three times. What we are seeing is an innovation center for us. A center for a great collaboration with the decys, and the bite and the bite and the bite and the bite of the bite and the bite and the being of the bee and the bite of the bee and the bite of the bee Bee.
The Russian firm registered a two -digit growth in India in 2024.
Posted on April 27, 2025