Saviynt’s Bengaluru Gcc Powers Global Identity Innovation

Saviynt, a global leader in AI-based identity security and governance, inaugurated its largest global innovation hub in Bengaluru on Oct 7. The 62,000 sq. ft. facility, home to over 650 employees, will focus on AI-driven research, development, and innovation in identity security, supporting both human and non-human digital identities.

In India, Saviynt is not only expanding its footprint but also shaping the future of identity security by combining India’s deep talent pool with AI-driven product innovation, said Paul Zolfaghari, president, Saviynt, in a statement. “From Bengaluru, our teams are building solutions that protect Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide.”

Presence of  cybersecurity Centres of Excellence (CoEs) within global capability centres (GCCs) is an emerging trend. Nearly 70% of GCCs in the country have established large security teams to combat AI-driven threats.

According to a PwC report, by 2025, India is expected to host 1,900 GCCs, with the market size reaching $60 billion.

Many of these offshore centres are likely to become hubs for cyber leadership, resilience, and innovation. These CoEs play a critical role in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-grade security frameworks, providing 24/7 monitoring, and building resilience for global enterprises.

However, India faces a dual mandate: to establish itself as a robust digital sovereign nation while remaining the world’s most attractive destination for GCCs. 

The challenge lies in the nature of GCCs—they rely on standardised, efficient, and borderless integration with their multinational parent companies. Policies enforcing data localisation, mandatory process changes, or increased legal risk directly challenge this model.

Importantly, GCCs are not only strengthening their own security posture but also contributing to the broader cybersecurity ecosystem through collaboration with R&D teams, universities, and industry partners. These developments are a natural response to the rise of agentic AI.

“In 2026, security leaders in Asia Pacific will face unprecedented pressure to evolve as the risk landscape shifts rapidly,” said Jinan Budge, VP and research director at Forrester in the latest report. Agentic AI will introduce new breach scenarios, leading organisations to balance innovation with accountability, he said.

Innovating from India

According to Grand View Research, the Identity & Access Management (IAM) market in India was valued at $184.8 million in 2023 and is projected to reach $583.9 million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 17.9% from 2024 to 2030. 

With the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act now law, enterprises are treating identity and access as boardroom priorities rather than IT afterthoughts. 

Alouk Kumar, founder and CEO Inductus Group, told AIM: “The most impactful GCCs are addressing these counterintuitive policies by using the GCC itself as the hub for privacy engineering, compliance, and governance, transforming the challenge into a service offering.”

Saviynt’s  Bengaluru hub also aligns with the IndiaAI Mission, launched in 2024 to democratise AI, address India-specific challenges, and create economic and employment opportunities.

Talking to AIM, Nitin Varma, SVP and MD- India & SAARC, Saviynt, said they go beyond building in India, and instead, lead from here. “Our Bengaluru Centre powers global identity innovation, customer delivery, and business operations at scale.”

Saviynt’s Bengaluru teams have already developed flagship solutions such as Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), non-human identity security, and AI-driven intelligence. 

The hub will continue embedding agentic AI and automation into the Identity Cloud platform, addressing the rising number of non-human identities, which experts say can outnumber human users by 60:1 to 82:1.

The executives also highlighted the challenges facing enterprises worldwide, including compliance sprawl across regulations like DPDP, GDPR, CCPA, NIS2, and DORA, AI ethics and governance, and securing complex supply chains and APIs.

Talent Crisis

Global cybersecurity job openings surged 350% over eight years, rising from 1 million in 2013 to 3.5 million in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. 

The number of unfilled positions stabilised in 2022 and remained at 3.5 million in 2023, with over 750,000 vacancies in the US alone. While the industry continues to seek new talent and address workforce burnout, the gap between demand and supply is expected to persist at least through 2025.

Srikar Elisela, a cybersecurity specialist, posted on Linkedin that “With only 350,000 cybersecurity experts available against a demand for 1 million, India faces a critical talent gap.” As cyber threats grow, this shortage could put businesses and data at risk, he added

Keeping this in mind, Saviynt is investing in India’s talent ecosystem through partnerships with premier colleges. The Saviynt University program is focused on ensuring India becomes the global hub for the next generation of cybersecurity leaders.

On managing data sovereignty and compliance, Varma explained that their platform, by design, gives full-spectrum visibility across human and non-human identities, integrates with any app, and unifies signals—access, events, logs, behavior—into an identity data backbone. “This enables access management, posture, and joiner-mover-leaver automation on one platform.”  

Akshay Sivananda, CISO at Saviynt, spoke to AIM about addressing the risks posed by rogue AI agents. Strict oversight is imperative as organisations need to inventory all AI applications and their identities, enforce least privilege and Just-in-Time (JIT) access with full audits, and design systems so that agents cannot exfiltrate “everything” even if prompted, he explained. 

Varma added that it is equally essential to have a clear rationale behind every permission, noting that Saviynt’s platform enforces purpose binding and logs who approved each action and why.

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