Leading Sri Lankan corporates discuss future of cyber security solutions in AI era with NCINGA and Google

Google Cloud Security Regional Sales Manager Sujith Patnaik addressing top cyber security trends and empowering IT leaders with threat mitigation strategies

Google Cloud Security Specialist Kshitij Kapdekar sharing Google’s approach in addressing challenges

Panel discussion (from left): Google Cloud Security Specialist Kshitij Kapdekar, NCINGA Vice President – Cyber Security Aruna Malalasena, Heritage Partners Digital Law Expert and Partner Jayantha Fernando, and DFCC Bank Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer IT Vindya Solangaarachchi

NCINGA organised a C-suite knowledge sharing session with Google titled “C-Level Cypher” for leading Sri Lankan corporates to discuss the future of enterprise cyber security threats and their mitigation, especially in the context of rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI). Held at the ITC Ratnadipa, this event saw the participation of C-suite executives from the banking, manufacturing, and other industries. The session focused on the topics of AI and its misuse by bad faith actors, the resulting challenges, and how enterprises should rethink their approach to cyber security.

Cyber security experts from NCINGA and Google spoke about today’s enterprise threat landscape and how it’s determined by increased attack surfaces. Multi-extortion ransomware, attacks on infrastructure and detection sources, and deep fakes are some common security issues that enterprises have to contend with. Moreover, AI chatbots can deliver instructions to hackers, and AI applications can bypass captchas. In his address, Google Cloud Security at Google Cloud Regional Sales Manager Sujit Patnaik, explained current cyber-attack trends. He discussed how enterprises globally address latest cyber-attacks by adopting incident response retainer program, red teaming and cyber readiness and maturity assessments. NCINGA Senior Cyber Security Solutions Architect Gayan Sahabandu, explored how technologies are leveraging AI to manage cyber security threats. He shared how security information and event management (SIEM) technologies can reduce threat detection times, identify patterns, and detect threats before they adversely impact enterprises by incorporating AI. 

NCINGA Vice President – Cyber Security Aruna Malalasena commented further on these developments: “NCINGA views cyber security as a business challenge that must merge enterprise objectives with security objectives; it is not solely a technology challenge. Naturally, the threat landscape has expanded as enterprises digitally transform. AI has introduced both opportunities and new cyber threats. Our objective is to help our clients implement cyber security solutions with a high level of availability, reliability and stability amidst AI advancements. The secure by design approach at NCINGA delivers and maintains highly reliable cyber security infrastructure for enterprises so that they can focus on adopting new technology with confidence.”

A panel discussion featuring DFCC Bank Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer IT Vindya Solangaarachchi; Heritage Partners Digital Law Expert and Partner Jayantha Fernando; Google Cloud Security at Google Cloud Security Specialist Kshitij Kapdekar, and Aruna Malalasena, provided an additional platform to explore comprehensive aspects of today’s cyber security landscape in detail. Questions about Sri Lanka’s regulatory landscape on data privacy, security challenges faced by banks as they digitally transform, key security concerns that define any enterprise’s digitalisation journey, and security issues to address with cloud migration were among the topics presented to the expert panel by the participants for further discussion. 

Participants also had the opportunity to learn more about cyber security successes spearheaded by NCINGA. The global solution provider’s cyber security practice offers a wide range of solutions, including SOC monitoring, advanced threat detection, cloud security posture management (CSPM), compromise assessment, digital forensic and incident response, training for in-house enterprise security teams, proactive threat detection and simulation, and many more bundled managed security service provider (MSSP) Solutions. Cyber security solutions are a key component of NCINGA’s future-oriented technology suite, designed to drive digital transformation and business evolution.