Google has introduced several products and features in India before rolling them out in the rest of the world, Royal Hansen, vice-president, VP-engineering for privacy, safety and security at the company said ahead of the second edition of its annual Safer With Google event in New Delhi on Thursday. He said the company would continue to do this in the context of cybersecurity, privacy and safety as India is "a great example of a growing thriving dynamic online ecosystem”.
Hansen said India is particularly important, for instance, because in 2021, 30% of all transactions were digital, making India the number one country globally in terms of digital transactions. The flip side, however, is that this requires a robust cybersecurity mechanism.
"This makes it incredibly important that we do our job at Google and bake security in by default, make things private by design and keep people and businesses safe through all of these transformations," he said.
"In India, the numbers are staggering. Just the first quarter of 2022 saw 18 million cyberattacks and 200,000 threats a day. It's reached a level where it is not really a question of whether an individual or a business will be attacked, but how well they'll be prepared."
Naming cybersecurity as one of the top issues facing the world, Google launched a broad, multi-pronged effort to protect people from online harm through an array of new programmes, initiatives, collaborations and investments in India. The company said these efforts were aimed at strengthening the collective capability of the country’s growing digital economy from cyber threats.
Google also announced a cybersecurity upskilling program for about 100,000 developers, and IT and startup professionals across the country, in addition to a multilingual user awareness campaign – supported by MeitY and Digital India Corporation – to encourage millions of internet users to adopt better practices for safer digital transactions.
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