Microsoft Opens CyberSecurity Engagement Centre in India

At a time when governments the world over are struggling to tackle cyber-attacks

and data breach, technology giant Microsoft India on Friday launched a full-scale

CyberSecurity Engagement Center (CSEC) in India.

After a successful year-long pilot - the center is India's first and Microsoft's seventh

Cybersecurity Center globally - opened at a juncture when over three million debit cards

of various banks are believed to be 'tainted' following a suspected security breach in

the country.

"We believe security of critical information is imperative for our corporate customers,

 just as it is vital to ensure security and privacy of citizen data and transactions. Our

first investment towards this was setting up our local data centers in India and the

CyberSeccurity Engagement Center is the second," Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman,

Microsoft India, told reporters in New Delhi.