Airtel Business Secures Railways Cybersecurity Contract, AI, 24/7 Protection and Sovereign Tech in Spotlight

 

Indian Railways Security Operations Centre (IRSOC) signed a multi-year cybersecurity contract with Airtel Business in a defining moment for telecom + security convergence. The mission is to protect the country’s long railway system, covering all of India. Make in India cybersecurity, AI-driven threat detection and critical infrastructure security are now becoming the new themes in the digital transformation of India. 

According to the recent update, Airtel will build and deploy a multi-layered defence ecosystem to protect Indian railway IT systems like train tracking, ticketing, signalling and passenger databases. The contract includes over 26 railway locations with over 160000 employees and 190000 devices connecting with the Indian railway system.

The system will include the centralised Security Operations Centre (SOC) to monitor continuously, endpoint protection, real-time compliance dashboards, vulnerability management, AI/ML-powered threat detection. With Make in India, cybersecurity tools, Airtel is now integrating sovereign tech infrastructure to make the infrastructure more secure and stronger. 

Both Airtel’s CEO and IRSOC will coordinate with national cybersecurity agencies to prioritise data security, infrastructure protection, with passenger safety on top. With the current era of cyberattacks, this could be the best movement towards Make in India cybersecurity and critical infrastructure cybersecurity.