The Indian Railway Security Operations Centre (IRSOC) has awarded Airtel Business a multi-year contract to provide comprehensive, industry-leading security services to protect the digital spine of India’s railway network.

With more than 13,000 trains running daily, more than 20 million commuters served, millions of digital transactions made possible every day, and more than 1.5 billion tons of freight transported yearly, the nation’s railway services are an essential national asset. In the current era of escalating cyber threats, protecting this massive flow of vital data—which includes sensitive customer names, payment information, and important operational databases for ticketing, train monitoring, freight, and signaling—is essential.

Airtel Business will create a multi-layer security system with sophisticated and centralized security measures to safeguard the vast railway database. Airtel Business will also protect the end-to-end digital operations of the nation’s railway services, which employ 160,000 people spread across 26 locations, by guaranteeing a robust and compliant secure backend.

The technological stack will offer a sovereign, completely compliant, and AI-embedded security ecosystem designed for protecting vital infrastructure. It will contain industry-leading technologies as well as state-of-the-art cybersecurity products made in India.

Indian Railway would gain from a centralized security architecture with Airtel Secure that provides:

• Created a thorough compliance dashboard with integrated security solutions, centralized visibility, and real-time monitoring across more than 26 sites.
• An AI-powered advanced cybersecurity solution for endpoint detection and response that makes sure every endpoint is always watched over and protected.
• Over 190,000 vital infrastructure assets, devices, and inventories are monitored in real time across 26 sites in a single window view.
• An industry-leading MTTD of less than 20 seconds is achieved by AI-driven SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA systems that use machine learning and behavioral analytics to continually monitor, anticipate, and neutralize threats in real time.
• Actively track and identify hazards before they affect company operations.
• To protect mission-critical applications, use firewalls, routers, MPLS networks, and credential protection.

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Priyanka Dutta