Consultants communicate on the session titled ‘Past Compliance: Leveraging ISO 27001 for Built-in Information Safety Administration’, at The Hindu Tech Summit 2026, in Chennai
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Safety consciousness needs to be a steady exercise and is everybody’s accountability, Maharajan Suriyanarayan, Chief Data Safety Officer and Vice-President-IT, Navitas Life Sciences, mentioned in Chennai on Friday (February 13, 2026) at The Hindu Tech Summit 2026. The occasion is hosted by The Hindu, introduced by VIT, and co-presented Sify Applied sciences.
Whereas talking on the session titled ‘Past Compliance: Leveraging ISO 27001 for Built-in Information Safety Administration’, he mentioned consciousness about safety has been created over a time frame by implementing ISO 27001.
Talking about methods to make sure that safety evolves and the steps to be taken to have a security-aware tradition inside an organisation, he mentioned: “Safety consciousness needs to be created from prime to backside, and there’s a want to pay attention to buyer knowledge and methods to safe them. Completely different sorts of packages are important. New threats are coming, and data about such threats must be given, from finish customers to the highest administration,” he added.
Tradition will not be a observe however extra of a disciplined strategy, Ram P., Govt Vice-President and Chief Data Officer, Virtusa Company, mentioned. “We’ve additionally enabled AI to observe worker behaviour to see if there are any aberrations,” he added.
Balakumar M.N., Head, IT, Ucal Restricted, mentioned there may be must have a steady evaluation of security-related features as effectively. “We should always assess, reassess, and doc the method in such a manner that we all know the basis causes and study from it … on account of risky modifications, be it enterprise modifications, introduction of latest insurance policies, or modifications inside the organisation. It needs to be a cycle. Be taught, unlearn, and relearn,” he added.
Addressing a query on what differentiates a licensed organisation in changing into a safe one, when there’s a quickly evolving risk panorama akin to AI, Sivaramakrishnan N., Senior Vice-President, Data Safety and Chief Data Safety Officer, M2P, mentioned AI has been bringing about fast modifications. “Now, everybody desires to attempt the Anthropic plugin. No matter entry you give, management the blast radius,” he mentioned. Whereas one could be allowed to dabble with a brand new plugin, there must be management on what number of get entry to it, whether or not it’s accepted by their head; the character and sensitivity of the info needs to be monitored and it must be a timed exercise as effectively, he added.
Mr. Ram mentioned safety is at all times a balancing act. “We’ve deployed AI to trace main incidents. We simulate them. We don’t look forward to an incident to occur. That manner, we’re protected. It has been a humongous problem to maintain up with [the developments of AI], to know the AI narrative of the organisation, to upskill ourselves,” he added.
Suresh Vijayaraghavan, CTO, The Hindu, moderated the session.
Revealed – February 13, 2026 05:45 pm IST
