Business Software Alliance releases “2027 Global Cyber Agenda for an AI World” with eight priority actions, calling on India and other governments to deploy AI for defence and modernise outdated cybersecurity rules
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has released its “2027 Global Cyber Agenda for an AI World,” urging governments in India and around the world to revisit their cybersecurity policies as advanced artificial intelligence changes the nature of cyber risk. Issued during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the agenda lists eight priority actions meant to help defenders keep up with faster and more sophisticated threats.
A structural shift in cyber risk
According to the agenda, today’s frontier AI cybersecurity systems can find vulnerabilities on their own, chain exploits together and carry out cyberattacks. This marks a structural change in the risk landscape: attacks are emerging faster and spreading more widely, while the expertise required to mount them is shrinking.
The document argues that policies built for a slower, human-driven threat environment may no longer be adequate. At the same time, it stresses that several foundational approaches, including C-suite leadership, public-private collaboration and internationally recognised standards, remain as important as ever.
Key recommendations
The agenda asks governments to prioritise using AI for cybersecurity and to give security professionals early access to frontier AI cybersecurity systems. It notes that companies are already taking steps to provide such tools to trusted defenders.
It also recommends better vulnerability management, modernisation of legacy systems that often run beyond their supported life cycles, and building resilience into systems so organisations can continue operating during incidents and recover quickly.
On regulation, the agenda says fragmented and overlapping cybersecurity rules divert resources away from security itself, and calls for greater alignment. It further urges a move to post-quantum cryptography and suggests measuring cybersecurity outcomes through operational metrics such as mean time to detect and mean time to respond.
India focus
Linking the agenda to the Indian context, Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, Country Manager, India, Business Software Alliance, said: “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent call at the India Mobile Congress 2026 for a global framework to address cybercrime and AI-driven deepfakes reinforces the importance of international cooperation in tackling emerging cybersecurity threats. As the India AI Mission accelerates AI adoption nationwide, cybersecurity must keep pace. BSA’s 2027 Global Cyber Agenda shows how India can harness AI for cyber defense, align its rules with global norms and prepare critical systems for the post-quantum era to build a safe and trusted digital economy.”
