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RAISING THE BAR Jishant Karunakaran, CEO at Mindfire Technologies, a next generation provider of cybersecurity services discusses how the company is helping enterprise customers secure their infrastructure and data Please discuss Mindfire's expansion with a new office at DIC? The expansion is in line with our mission of becoming a trusted cyber security services provider with world class infrastructure and skills, along with strong local presence so as to strengthen our position as a trusted partner available locally here in the UAE. Our cyber defence centre at Dubai internet city hosts a security operations centre as well as forensic lab. We are continuously investing in technology and process and methodologies to ensure that we are able to deliver value to our customers. We relish in constantly raising the bar for ourselves when it comes to customer satisfaction and our ability to innovate and deliver emerging security solutions as well as managed security services. Have you increased your team? Has the business grown in 2021? Last year our team grew by over 100%, as many of our enterprise customer entrust us with their security cybersecurity services. The segment which saw significant growth was managed security services with organizations realising the value an MSSP can bring for them in terms of managing cybersecurity challenges. Discuss the cybersecurity landscape as you see it at present? Are companies investing sufficiently in security? Obviously, there is increased realization across the spectrum of enterprise leadership that the security threats are increasingly getting complex, frequent, and impactful as well as the fact that threats come from outside and inside the organization and that everyone is vulnerable. Cybersecurity is being seen as critical business investments to be leveraged to generate organizational value, not a just good to have attribute which reduces business risk. Keeping pace with cybersecurity and data privacy also drives innovation and growth. We have a strong team on data security and protection services helping our customers on formulating and implementing data protection policies and technologies to ensure compliance and to safeguard this critical enterprise asset. What are your strengths as a security services provider? Our core strength obviously our skilled team of professionals. We constantly invest in our people with frequent trainings, workshops and brainstorming sessions. Over the years we have developed strong partnership with some of the leading cybersecurity vendors. We represent them here in the region with certified team of can customise and implement these solutions for our customers here in the region. We have a dedicated Incident response team with fully facilitated forensic lab. Elaborate your focus on cloud security? We see our self as a cloud native company having been part of early cloud initiatives in the region. As Organizations migrate their enterprise workloads and applications to the public cloud
Jishant Karunakaran CEO, Mindfire Technologies
to take advantage of the elastic and scalable infrastructure as well as to benefit from cloud native applications and services available on the public cloud security is all the more important. We help our customer with Cloud security posture management to provide comprehensive security across public cloud. You have a focus on Managed security services- do you already have customers who subscribe to managed services from you? Managed security services is our faster growing business segment over the past couple of years. We have some of the leading entities both in public and private sector in our managed security services portfolio. We are certified with ISO/IEC 27001:2003 Information Security Management System Hall marking our managed security services. Which are the key vendors you work with across different solutions? We work closely with vendors like VMWARE security for their leading EDR solution Carbon Black and NDR solution last line, AT&T cybersecurity USM anywhere is one of our hot selling segment. We are a Microsoft managed security partner as well offering Microsoft 365 and sentinel security offerings. For email resilience we also work with Mimecast and Barracuda apart from Proof point as well. For XDR segment we work with SOPHOS and Sentinel One. We partner with RSA for their leading SIEM solution newishness. For monitoring solutions, we work primarily with PAESSLER PRTG. We also partner with Fortinet, Checkpoint, Forcepoint, BlueLiv and ORCA. MARCH 2022 / CXO DX
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