L&T Technology Services bags $100 mn deal for Maharashtra cybersecurity

L&T Technology Services (LTTS), the engineering and technology services arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), has won a “first-of-its-kind” programme in India worth around $100 million (Rs 800 crore) from the Maharashtra State Cyber Department.

In this initiative by the Maharashtra government, LTTS in consortium with KPMG Assurance and Consulting Services as forensics partner will provide advanced cybersecurity solutions for strengthening public safety against threats.

The programme also encompasses a Digital Threat Analytics Centre paired with a Centre of Excellence that will equip the forensic team with latest digital forensic tools including deep fake detection, mobile malware forensics, internet of things investigation, network forensics, among others.

LTTS will also help build a Central Emergency Response Team to deal with incident response and investigation based on advanced cyber threat intelligence and analytics like APT detection and data breach, adversary intelligence from dark net, advanced malware analysis, proactive threat hunting and red teaming.

A “state-of-the-art” Security Operations Centre (SOC), enabled by AI and machine learning technologies and having a skilled cyber team, will be built to help protect critical infrastructure.