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With tech advancements happening at a breath takingly rapid pace, the digital landscape is now more sophisticated more than ever before. Although there have been significant innovations happening in terms of strengthening the overall cybersecurity of organizations, cyberattack techniques too have been evolving parallelly, making it extremely challenging to strengthen their overall security posture and safe guard all end points.

As per a recent report from Fortune Business Insights, the global cyber security market which stood at $193.73 billion in 2024 is expected to amount to $218.98 billion in 2025 and further grow to $562.77 billion by 2032, growing at a 14.4 percent CAGR during the forecast period.

With such fine market conditions at bay, one company is strongly emerging as a go-to cybersecurity solutions partner and setting new industry benchmarks is Kavayah Cybersecurity. Based in US and India, Kavayah was founded in 2022 with a vision to empower businesses with cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions to help thrive securely in today’s digital era.

In a recent interaction with CIO Insider, Vikram Shahi (Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer) shared more insights about Kavayah Cybersecurity, its core practice areas, and many other interesting facets. Below are a few key excerpts from the exclusive interview –

Enlighten us about the inception story of Kavayah Cybersecurity and its experienced team.

Cybersecurity today is inherently multidimensional, spanning imple -mentation, governance, enforce - ment, monitoring, and operational resilience. Yet, the market remains dominated by narrowly scoped products built to solve isolated problems.

These niche solutions, while technically sound, contribute to a fragmented ecosystem plagued by resource-heavy integrations, limited visibility, and inconsistent governance outcomes. Despite incremental improvements, most vendors lack a horizontal, enterprise-wide outlook. Kavayah Cybersecurity was founded to address this systemic gap.

We take a platform-first approach rooted in the principle of Defense-in-Depth, delivering layered, interoperable security rings that surround the enterprise and eliminate single points of failure. Our architecture integrates IT and OT into a cohesive, enforceable framework, enabling a 360-degree view of the organization’s cybersecurity posture.

Kavayah doesn’t just plug gaps, it redefines the perimeter. By collapsing silos and aligning technical controls with legal and operational mandates, we empower enterprises to shift from fragmented defense to strategic cyber command, resilient, scalable, and future-ready.

Kavayah’ is a Sanskrit word which translates to ‘profound wisdom and intelligence’, which has been the embodiment of our cybersecurity mission. With over 100 years of combined leadership experience across its founding team, spanning roles as CISOs, CIOs, and senior technology leaders in global financial institutions, Kavayah’s CoE in Ahmedabad recruits toptier engineering talent from leading

Indian universities and global firms to drive platform innovation and cyber security advancement. The center also engages in academic research and institutional collaboration to promote cybersecurity awareness, training, and tailored solutions for local markets.

Throw some light on the various products and solutions that Kavayah offers.

Kavayah Cybersecurity is a full-spectrum cybersecurity firm built to replace fragmented, tool-centric approaches with a unified, process-driven platform. Our solution spans the entire cybersecurity lifecycle, from digital asset intelligence and vulnerability management to incident response, threat containment, change governance, third-party risk mitigation, business-contextual risk scoring, and audit-ready compliance.

We’ve architected our platform to deliver multidimensional security without the complexity of managing disconnected tools or siloed workflows. At the heart of our offering is the Enterprise Cybersecurity & Risk Management Platform, a one-of-its-kind solution designed to provide a 360-degree view of an organization’s cyber posture.

How does your platform facilitate hassle-free regulatory compliance for enterprises?

With in-built capabilities for asset management, vulnerability manage - ment, access control and change management integrated onto a central database within our platform, we’re able to produce reports instantly for audits and regulatory compliance.

Additionally, since we have structured our platform with builtin governance and policy reviews, anybody who’s implementing it will automatically be compliant with most industry regulations, including ISO 27001 and SOC 2.

Furthermore, any breach in governance, risk management, access control, or data security will trigger automated alerts, enabling designated personnel to respond swiftly with appropriate corrective actions.

The platform is also equipped with an inter-active dashboard through which the CISOs can check for the triggered alerts, missed SLAs, and any upcoming policy or procedure reviews.

With cyber threats evolving each passing day, how are you spreading awareness around cybersecurity and making the digital world safer for all?

All our solutions have in-built training modules that companies can use to educate their workforce and even enable CISOs to precisely assess the compliance rate of how many employees have successfully completed the training program.

Further, these training modules can also be tailored as per the company's requirements in terms of pass/fail or even the number of questions required to pass. Additionally, we are also partnering with law enforcement agencies to not only create awareness about vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, but educate them on every aspect of cyber security as a complete ecosystem through our solutions.

Further, we have partnered with a few universities around Ahmedabad to provide their students with end-to-end cyber security education. Using our training modules, we are on an endeavor to create next generation of cybersecurity engineers who have a 360-degree view of cybersecurity and how the various aspects & workflows of it are interconnected.

What does the future hold for Kavayah going forward?

While cybersecurity regulations are becoming more stringent, access to sophisticated tools or having a CISO are both extremely expensive. To address this, we plan to roll-in Virtual CISO services so that small businesses, regional banks and any people with complex compliance requirements are provided with all the intelligence that an actual CISO brings to the table.

Currently focused on IT cybersecurity, we will also be targeting the operational cybersecurity vertical in the coming year. We also want to further enhance our AI capabilities and remain at the forefront of AI integration, real-time threat analytics, operational technology (OT) security integration, and next-gen governance, risk & compliance (GRC) to adhere with all global regulatory compliance requirements.

In terms of our long-term vision, we are looking forward to get into cyber insurance segment as well, as it is bound to soon become a norm for digital businesses to stay afloat in any case of cyber incident.

Since we possess a deeper understanding of the companies’ risk profile and cyber security maturity, we want to partner with cybersecurity insurance companies and offer all necessary data points for them to provide the right quotes and guidelines based on a company’s risk profile.