BSA calls for cybersecurity policy overhaul as frontier AI reshapes threats
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has launched its 2027 Global Cyber Agenda for an AI World, calling on governments, including India, to update cybersecurity policies as advances in frontier artificial intelligence (AI) change the scale and speed of cyber threats.
The agenda, released during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, outlines eight priority actions aimed at helping cybersecurity teams respond to increasingly sophisticated threats. According to BSA, advanced AI systems can identify vulnerabilities, combine exploits and execute cyberattacks with greater autonomy, potentially reducing the expertise required to launch them.
BSA argues that cybersecurity policies designed around slower, human-led attacks may no longer be sufficient. It recommends wider use of AI for cyber defence and priority access to frontier AI cybersecurity systems for security professionals, building on efforts by technology companies to make these tools available to trusted defenders.
The agenda also calls for improvements in vulnerability management, the modernisation of legacy systems operating beyond their supported life cycles, and stronger resilience measures to help organisations maintain operations during cyber incidents and recover quickly.
BSA has urged governments to align cybersecurity regulations and reduce fragmentation and overlap between regulatory requirements, arguing that compliance complexity can divert resources from security operations. It also recommends transitioning to post-quantum cryptography to prepare systems for future quantum computing-related risks.
The agenda further calls for measuring cybersecurity performance through operational indicators, including mean time to detect threats and mean time to respond. At the same time, it emphasises that established practices such as senior leadership accountability, public-private collaboration and the use of internationally recognised standards remain important.
“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,” said Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, Country Manager for India at BSA.
He said that as the India AI Mission accelerates AI adoption, cybersecurity measures would need to keep pace. The agenda, he added, outlines ways for India to use AI for cyber defence, align its rules with global norms and prepare critical systems for the post-quantum era.
The recommendations come as governments and enterprises face the challenge of integrating AI into digital infrastructure while managing the security risks associated with increasingly capable AI systems. BSA’s agenda seeks to address this through changes to defensive capabilities, regulatory approaches and long-term infrastructure readiness.