By:- Jude Kannabiran, VP Asia at Delinea
“The government’s inter-ministerial group (IMG) on financial cybersecurity is arriving at the right moment.One of the common financial frauds today is someone impersonating a legitimate identity, whether it’s a customer, an employee, or increasingly, an AI-generated voice on a call. That’s exactly the blind spot this strategy needs to close.Integrating real-time fraud intelligence from the India Digital Payment Intelligence Corporation (IDPIC) with a dedicated financial–sector framework is a strong move. But the real impact will be visible only if identity and access controls are treated as core financial infrastructure that governs what a verified identity is allowed to do, not just whether it gets through the front door. As frontier AI makes synthetic identities harder to tell apart from real ones, that governance layer is what will decide whether the framework holds up over time.”