Can Russia and India cooperate in the field of cybersecurity? What practical steps can be taken now?
India’s digital transformation is moving in a similar direction to what we see in Russia – rapid growth in fintech, digital government services, e-commerce and smart city infrastructure. This advancement requires strong cybersecurity. Over the past three years, we have learned how to protect critical systems, measure and enhance resilience and quickly train experts to meet growing demand. This is hard knowledge – we are ready to share with your experts to help make India’s digital transformation safer and more sustainable.
Russia is also developing a system to objectively measure cybersecurity across the company, region and national infrastructure. We are pleased to see Indian companies and experts join us in creating and implementing the system.
At Cyberus, we unite dozens and cybersecurity companies – not only working to protect our own country, but also join forces with partners to build a secure digital future.
We have worked with 40 countries and we are particularly eager to deepen our cooperation with India. We see India not only as a partner, but also as a key player in shaping the future of global cybersecurity and digital architecture.
Our long friendship proves that we can achieve great things together—not only in industrialization, but in the digital world.
Driven by greater digitalization, India is struggling to address an unprecedented surge in cyberattacks. These violations are undermining the industry, government services, and putting a large amount of private data at risk. What measures must be taken to prevent and prevent these attacks? More broadly, is it possible to prevent these attacks in the current digital architecture?
Today’s cybersecurity lags significantly behind the pace of digitalization. In countries like India, it is obvious that in India, the rapid digital transformation of government, business and society has made it both a global leader and a target for cyberattacks.
But this lag is only part of the problem. The bigger question is how we deal with digitalization itself. Today’s digital world is built in a way that cannot be secure at all.
Centralized digital architecture – IT-Companies has full control and can change the power of user systems at any time – cannot be secure by design. In fact, this is usually how hackers break in: leverage these central control points.
Therefore, we do face two major challenges: First, trying to improve cybersecurity within the scope of today’s systems. Second, plan a better digital architecture that centers user security and sovereignty from the outset.
What exactly should we do?
The only real way to solve these two challenges is through global collaboration. There are no boundaries in the digital world. This means making sure it is not something that any country can do alone.
To meet the first challenge, we need to stay away from the checkbox mentality of cybersecurity, in which case the decision is simply to meet the formal requirements. Instead, we need to learn how to measure the security of a country’s critical information infrastructure.
Today, most organizations only find their vulnerability after being hacked. But there is a better way: Continuous testing through a skilled cybersecurity team – simulate real attacks, expose weaknesses and close them before the attacker enters.
Russia has made real progress in assessing our security before an incident occurs: using white hat ethical hacking, big data analytics, and AI to predict vulnerabilities and estimate potential damage. This approach takes us from compliance to real risk management and strengthens how we build security. We are ready to share this experience with colleagues in India.
How do we build a global digital architecture together when every country focuses on achieving digital sovereignty?
This may sound like a contradiction, but it is not: true digital sovereignty requires cooperation.
The old sovereignty model means building everything behind a digital wall. But this approach doesn’t scale – it’s expensive, slow, and often replaces another dependency with another.
Our vision is different. It’s about creating a modular, decentralized and trustworthy digital architecture where any component can be replaced, but the entire system can stay running. This is not about replicating existing ecosystems, but about creating something new through global collaboration, based on fair sharing rules that define how we live, work and connect in the digital world.
Normal standards eliminate the need for every country to build a complete technology stack from scratch. Instead, components from different countries (Russia, India, South Africa, other countries) can be merged into a secure, operating system. If part of it is not available for any reason, it can be easily replaced.
To do this, we need a country that is willing to be composed based on trust, transparency and equity. Not rule. It’s more than just a technical challenge – it’s a political and moral challenge.
It also requires a mindset change: Going beyond short-term victories and thinking long-term about the future that benefits everyone. If we do, we will lay the foundation for a truly safe, multipolar digital world.
