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About the event
TCS Cybersecurity Forum: Strengthening cyber resilience in a VUCA World
The TCS Cybersecurity Forum, New York 2026, was held on March 19 at the Nexus Club, alongside our co-partners CrowdStrike and Zscaler. The forum featured insights from cybersecurity leaders, industry influencers, and prominent technology partners. The sessions focused on how organisations can realign their cybersecurity strategies to proactively defend against ever-evolving cyber threats. The event served as a pivotal platform for organisations aiming to strengthen their cyber resilience amid a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
Discussion themes
Roundtable discussion #1- Harness the potential of AI through trust, risk, and security management
This discussion explored how organisations can harness the true potential of AI by building it on a foundation of trust, trust in the data, trust in the systems, and trust in the decisions AI empowers. That trust is not accidental. It is built through deliberate security practices, rigorous risk management, and leadership that anticipates risk before it materialises. The discussion covered themes including AI governance and risk frameworks, the evolving threat landscape, accountability structures, regulatory pressures, and practical strategies for security leaders navigating this space today.
Speakers for this discussion:
- Gopal Padinjaruveetil, Executive Managing Director; CISO and Tech Risk Management at The Auto Club Group (AAA)
- Ravi Monga, Field CISO at ZScaler
- Timothy Youngblood, Business Advisor, Cybersecurity Business Unit at TCS
- Ravi Yadav, Global Head of Cybersecurity Services-BFSI at TCS – Moderator
Roundtable discussion #2 - Strategies to build future-ready, cyber resilient businesses
As digital transformations accelerate, cyber threats have become more sophisticated, frequent, and disruptive. Traditional security measures are no longer sufficient, and organisations need to embed resilience into their core strategy. Cyber resilience goes beyond defense, focusing on an enterprise’s ability to proactively anticipate, withstand, and rapidly recover from attacks. This discussion set the stage for exploring practical, future-ready strategies to build cyber-resilient businesses in an increasingly volatile threat landscape.
Speakers for this discussion:
- Amanda Adams, Global Alliances Head at Crowdstrike
- Baba Bedi, Information Security, Risk and Privacy Consultant at Hugo Boss
- Gopal Padinjaruveetil, Executive Managing Director; CISO and Tech Risk Management at The Auto Club Group (AAA)
- Samir Malaviya, Geography Head- Cybersecurity, Americas at TCS - Moderator
Key takeaways
The TCS Cybersecurity Forum made one thing clear: the era of "business as usual" is over. As AI, machine speed, and systemic risk redefine the digital landscape, the consensus among CISOs and industry leaders is that defence strategies must evolve from prevention-first to resilience-by-design.
AI has eliminated the barrier to entry for sophisticated attacks. Adversaries now execute reconnaissance and hyper-personalised phishing at machine speed. To counter this, defenders must move beyond manual governance and embed automation at the core of their architecture.
The traditional "time-to-exploit" has collapsed. Organisations are now targeted before patches are even available. In this environment, two metrics have moved from the server room to the boardroom:
- Mean time to detect (MTTD): How quickly you identify a breach.
- Mean time to respond (MTTR ): How quickly you neutralise the threat.
AI has eliminated the barrier to entry for sophisticated attacks. Adversaries now execute reconnaissance and hyper-personalised phishing at machine speed. To counter this, defenders must move beyond manual governance and embed automation at the core of their architecture.
As we integrate agentic AI (autonomous AI bots), we must manage these "non-human identities" with the same rigour as employees. Trust is an outcome of engineered governance involving:
- Explainability: Transparent and traceable AI decision-making.
- Safety: Human-in-the-loop controls and rollback mechanisms.
- Framework evolution: Extending standards like NIST CSF (Cybersecurity Framework) and ISO 27001 to address new threats like prompt injection and data poisoning.
Cyber resilience is no longer a technical silo; it is a holistic business requirement. Success is defined by the ability to recover effectively across SaaS and cloud ecosystems. In a world of cyber-driven disruption, traditional recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) assumptions are being rewritten through mandatory crisis simulations and executive playbooks.
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