Kaspersky recently hosted KasperskySecure: Live in Sri Lanka, bringing together 80 to 90 security leaders, bankers and technology partners in Colombo for an evening built around a single question. Once a threat has been spotted, how quickly can an organisation actually respond to it.
The event was held at Cinnamon Life Hotel on 16 July.
The evening opened with a look at the evolving cyber threat landscape in Sri Lanka, led by Kaspersky Marketing Manager – SEA and AEC Elizabeth Shen, alongside Kaspersky, Sri Lanka Territory Channel Manager – AEC Mohnissh Manukulasuriya.
Shen walked attendees through a worldwide malware landscape that keeps expanding, with new unique malware samples detected daily climbing from around 340,000 in 2019 to roughly 500,000 in 2025, most of it low and medium complexity cybercrime rather than sophisticated targeted attacks. Shen also pointed to a run of recent incidents showing how far the fallout from a single breach can travel, from the Handala campaign, to the Jaguar Land Rover breach.
Safe Project Ltd., CEO Faizan Marikkar then gave a short introduction to Kaspersky’s presence in Sri Lanka, along with his outlook on what lies ahead given the current threat landscape. Safe Project Ltd., Systems Engineer and OSMP and XDR solutions expert Milindan Nimesh, then took attendees deeper into the platform’s Open Single Management Platform and XDR Expert capabilities. A pre-recorded demonstration led by Nimesh showed how uniting visibility and response improves mean time to detect, mean time to respond and an analyst team’s daily workload, while cutting the false positives that drive alert fatigue.
The program then moved into building a unified security operations strategy, led by Mohnissh Manukulasuriya. He set out a Security Operations Centre as resting on three pillars, people, process and technology, and walked through the respective roles of SIEM as the visibility layer and XDR as the response layer. He introduced Kaspersky Next, offered across EDR Foundations, EDR Optimum and XDR Expert tiers, bringing endpoint detection, threat intelligence, managed detection and response, and network detection together under one platform with more than 300 integrations out of the box, before taking attendees through a deeper technical walkthrough of how a modern SOC actually comes together on Kaspersky’s platform, including how its Managed Detection and Response service uses AI to cut false positives by around 30% and speed up triage, giving security teams unified visibility and expert-backed support without adding headcount.
“Sri Lankan businesses are digitising faster than ever, and that is a good thing, but it also means the attack surface keeps growing. What we see again and again is not a lack of tools. It is a lack of integration. Teams have visibility in one place and the ability to respond in another, and attackers exploit exactly that gap,” said Manukulasuriya.