Tech Mahindra partners with Balbix to bring in cyber security platform

Fifth largest Indian IT services firm Tech Mahindra has partnered with Silicon Valley-based data breach avoidance platform provider, Balbix, to introduce the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Cyber risk platform.

With this Tech Mahindra’s solutions provided through intelligent security operations center (iSOC) can now “predict and proactively avoid cyber-breaches by continuously monitoring IT inventories for hundreds of breach risk factors and take appropriate mitigating steps” for organizations, said the company in a statement.

The joint platform uses deep learning and AI algorithms to predict how attacks can happen and propagate, providing actionable insights to mitigate the risk of breach.


Tech Mahindra said this solution empowers security teams to prioritize initiatives based on business risk and pro-forma return on investment, optimize security spending and simplify compliance,

At a time when the cyber security market suffers from spiraling costs, increasing complexity and a growing rate of data breach, the Tech Mahindra-Balbix partnership will help serve the market using a new proactive approach that combines advanced AI technology and with deep domain expertise in cybersecurity and infrastructure.

The company said the partnership will empower Tech Mahindra to cater to the ten billion dollar managed security market globally.

“By leveraging the combination of Balbix’s AI-powered breach avoidance platform, and the expertise of our skilled SOC (Security Operations Center) analysts, we have developed a highly intelligent SOC-as-a-service offering that is able to proactively control cyber-breaches across 200 plus attack dimensions,” Rajiv Singh, Global Head of Enterprise Security & Risk Management at Tech Mahindra, was quoted in the statement.