Pegasus Controversy: India Inc fear of being snooped put mechanisms in place

Mumbai: Days into the Pegasus spyware saga a large Indian conglomerate is working with a cybersecurity firm to hand out 150 special phones to its key executives across companies.

These phones would not be able to download any applications or surf the internet. And every message or phone call received or sent would go through a protected server.

Call it the Pegasus effect. From upping their internal security to creating centralised servers and from getting vulnerability tests to sensitising the senior management about cyber risks, the Pegasus spyware incident has brought the spotlight on rapidly emerging enterprise threats from cyberspace.