Maruti Suzuki flags cybersecurity as a core auto-industry resilience priority
Maruti Suzuki India MD Hisashi Takeuchi urged automakers to bolster cybersecurity and contingency planning as vehicles and operations become more digital. He pointed to recent disruption at JLR and Suzuki Motorcycle India, while also highlighting localisation and policy incentives.
What happened
Maruti Suzuki India MD Hisashi Takeuchi urged auto manufacturers to strengthen cybersecurity and contingency planning as digitalisation increases. He cited
Key facts
- 66th annual ACMA convention
- August 31, 2025
- five weeks
- late October 2025
- 2023
- over 20,000 units
Why this matters
The rising need for automotive cyber protection and recovery capabilities could increase strategic value for targets in vehicle security, OT security, supply-chain monitoring and business-continuity software.
What to watch
- Cyberattack-driven plant shutdown, dealer outage or vehicle-delivery disruption at an Indian OEM or major supplier.
- New Indian automotive cybersecurity, connected-car data, software-update or supplier-compliance mandates.
- OEM tender language adding cyber certification, audit rights or business-continuity requirements.
- Rising cyber-insurance exclusions, premiums or ransomware-related claims in manufacturing.
- Supplier consolidation, contract losses or delayed launches attributed to cybersecurity compliance costs.
- Budget cybersecurity as production-continuity capex rather than corporate IT overhead.
- Map critical digital dependencies across plants, suppliers, dealerships, finance, logistics and connected-vehicle platforms.
- Require tiered suppliers to disclose cyber controls, recovery-time objectives and incident-notification procedures.
- Test manual production, dispatch, invoicing and dealer-order workflows during simulated IT outages.
- Localise or dual-source high-risk electronic components and software-support dependencies where feasible.