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. With all these Indian railway will be expected to make some major changes, which we will talk about soon. We expect every section of the Indian Railway will receive an upgrade with the multi-year collaboration of one of the telecom giants of India, Airtel and the Indian Railways Security Operations Centre. So let's dive into what we could see in the upcoming years.  

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. This much manpower and devices make every corner of Indian Railway perfect as we always wanted to see. With this contract, it is expected that, Indian railway system will get a big and major update soon. Train tracking, ticketing and signalling are always challenging work in Indian tracks. It will be safer and more secure with the new ecosystem. With the train tracking, the system will be able to always track every single train live without any delay. With the signalling system, it is expected that the train lateness issue will be permanently resolved. As we started seeing the difference now, with time, we will receive more things soon.

The system will include the centralised Security Operations Centre (SOC) to monitor continuously, endpoint protection, real-time compliance dashboards, vulnerability management, and 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. With a continuously monitoring system, it will be easier to monitor every single train every time. The protection and safety are of high focus now. Airtel is integrating AI/ML and real-time features with the system, where rail will now live monitor every detail about all the tracks and trains.

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. Data Security also takes a major role in this scenario. With passenger and data security, Airtel and IRSOC are not ready to compromise. As we see now, Airtel is integrating spam detection technic with the help of AI in their telecom sector. As well as they will take help from the internal technical team and AI to make a secure, safe and always connected ecosystem with Indian Railway. Till this time, we hope for the best and in future, we are expecting to see a lot of changes in every process with the Indian Railway System.