Pune, 20^th April, 2026: Every exposed server, forgotten cloud bucket, or unpatched endpoint represents not just a technical oversight, but a deliberate invitation to adversaries who scan relentlessly for the path of least resistance. Indian enterprises, despite accelerated digital transformation, continue to leave their digital perimeters porous, creating attack surfaces that cybercrime syndicates exploit with industrial precision.

Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, has highlighted critical gaps in Indian enterprises’ cybersecurity maturity based on its India Cyber Threat Report 2026. Drawing insights from over 180 organizations, Seqrite’s annual Cybersecurity Maturity Survey assigned India’s cybersecurity posture an average maturity score of 6.3 out of 10, revealing persistent weaknesses that directly expand the attack surface in an environment where 265.52 million detections were recorded across more than 8 million endpoints in 2025, averaging 505 detections every minute.

The survey exposed foundational gaps across multiple domains. While 74.6% of organizations have implemented data classification frameworks, critical deficiencies persist in access provisioning workflows, secure data disposal practices, and least-privilege enforcement. Also, 27.6% lack any incident management process, leaving them unable to detect, contain, or recover from breaches effectively. Secure configuration remains a weak link, with many organizations operating End-of-Life (EOL/EOS) systems without mitigation. Patch management is inconsistent, with some prioritizing only critical updates while others have no structured process at all. These gaps compound when viewed against the broader threat landscape, where Trojans and infectors comprise nearly 70% of attacks and behavior-based detections blocked over 34 million advanced threats.

The expanding attack surface carries immediate regulatory consequences. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 demands rigorous data governance – from classification and consent to breach notification and safeguards – with non-compliance penalties reaching ₹250 crore. Maturity gaps in data security and incident response directly undermine DPDP readiness, especially when exposed assets leak PII through misconfigurations or unpatched vulnerabilities.

In this reality, advanced, DPDP-compliant security infrastructure, such as Seqrite Data Privacy, emerges as a non-negotiable. By automating data discovery, classification, and lifecycle protection across endpoints, clouds, and on-premises systems, Seqrite’s security solutions enforce DPDP-aligned controls like access provisioning, leakage prevention, and secure disposal.

About Seqrite

Seqrite is a leading enterprise cybersecurity solutions provider. With a focus on simplifying cybersecurity, Seqrite delivers comprehensive solutions and services through our patented, AI/ML-powered tech stack to protect businesses against the latest threats by securing devices, applications, networks, cloud, data, and identity. Seqrite is the Enterprise arm of the global cybersecurity brand, Quick Heal Technologies Limited, the only listed cybersecurity products and solutions company in India.

We are the first and only Indian company to have solidified India’s position on the global map by collaborating with the Govt. of the USA on its NIST NCCoE’s Data Classification project. We are differentiated by our easy-to-deploy, seamless-to-integrate comprehensive solutions providing the highest level of protection against emerging and sophisticated threats powered by state-of-the-art threat intelligence and playbooks backed by world-class service provided by best-in-class security experts at India’s largest malware analysis lab – Seqrite Labs. We are the only Indian full-stack company aligned with CSMA architecture recommendations, offering award-winning Endpoint Protection, Enterprise Mobile Device Management, Data Privacy, Zero Trust Network Access, and many more. Seqrite Data Privacy Management solution enables organizations to stay fully compliant with the DPDP Act and global regulations. We have recently launched Digital Risk Protection Services for external threat monitoring and Ransomware Recovery as a Service for rapid, guided restoration after ransomware attacks. Seqrite has also unveiled SIA, an LLM-powered security co-pilot built on GoDeep.AI to help enterprises navigate growing cyber complexity with intelligent, conversational analysis.

Today, 30,000+ enterprises in more than 70 countries trust Seqrite with their cybersecurity needs. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/42E5BCJ

About Quick Heal Technologies Limited

Quick Heal Technologies Ltd. is a global cybersecurity solutions provider. Each Quick Heal product is designed to simplify IT security management across the length and depth of devices and on multiple platforms. They are customized to suit consumers, small businesses, government establishments, and corporate houses. Over a span of nearly 3 decades, the company’s R&D has focused on computer and network security solutions.

The current portfolio of cloud-based security and advanced machine learning-enabled solutions stops threats, attacks, and malicious traffic before it strikes. This considerably reduces the system resource usage. The security solutions are indigenously developed in India. Quick Heal Antivirus Solutions, Quick Heal Scan Engine, and the entire range of Quick Heal products are proprietary items of Quick Heal Technologies Ltd. Recently, unveiled Quick Heal pioneers India’s first fraud prevention solution, AntiFraud.AI, available for Android, iOS and Windows.

For more information, please visit: https://www.quickheal.co.in/

AntiFraud.AI –  https://www.quickheal.co.in/quick-heal-antifraud/