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CTO Atul Kunwar
TECH MAHINDRA

“ We want to be the systems integrator of choice in the new IoT and knowledge world , so we ’ re curating solutions , but at the same time connecting the solution provider and the enterprise seamlessly ”

CTO Atul Kunwar

Tech Mahindra ’ s
go to the next level of cybersecurity defences by themselves .
It has shown that Asia is just as competitive in that market as other countries who might be arguably more vulnerable to cyber-attacks .
“ The cybersecurity angle showed me another dimension to all this ,” he explains . “ It ’ s not as if enterprises in particular regions or geographies are taking the lead on some of these things . The cybersecurity paradigm is changing more rapidly than a lot of others . It used to be saying you were okay if you had an antivirus , but that ’ s no longer true because you ’ re accepting all kinds of data everywhere . So , it ’ s become
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