Pioneering the Vanguard in All-encompassing Cybersecurity Solutions and Digital Safeguarding!
The advent of the digital age has brought about tremendous advancements and conveniences. We can shop online, connect with friends across the globe, and access a wealth of information at our fingertips. However, this convenience comes at a cost—our vulnerability to cyber threats.
The threat landscape in cyberspace is constantly evolving. Hackers, cybercriminals, and even nation-states are constantly devising new and sophisticated ways to breach digital defenses. They target everything from personal email accounts to multinational corporations and government institutions.
To tackle this, one firm stands out as a beacon of innovation and resilience. Seceon, with its Founder and CEO Chandra Pandey, who is a renowned figure in the field, is celebrated for his unwavering commitment to pioneering cybersecurity solutions that redefine the industry’s paradigms.
Under his exceptional leadership, Seceon has become renowned for its cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. Chandra has brought together a team of experts from various fields, including cybersecurity, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), fast/big data streaming, and dynamic threat modeling. Together, they are dedicated to creating Seceon’s award-winning cybersecurity platform, specifically designed for the digital age. Chandra, as the CEO of Seceon, goes beyond just leading the company; he actively listens to customers. He works closely with them to understand the complexities of their cybersecurity challenges, the potential consequences of breaches, and the importance of proactive solutions. This customer-centric approach distinguishes him in an industry often known for its complexity and lack of transparency.
Chandra’s legacy is defined by his innovative mindset and pursuit of excellence. His impressive list of patents attests to his significant contributions to the world of technology. These patents cover a wide range of areas, from application virtualization to highly scalable data center architecture, scalable multicast distribution, and power optimization for high-performance computers. It demonstrates his constant desire to push the boundaries of what is achievable.
Prior to joining Seceon, Chandra held key leadership positions at renowned technology companies. He served as the General Manager and Vice President of Platform Solutions at BTI Systems (now Juniper Networks), where he led a global team in creating, developing, and launching the Intelligent Secure Cloud Connect platform. This groundbreaking achievement resulted in over 20 successful customer deployments focused on Web 2.0 within an impressive timeframe of less than 18 months. Before that, he held senior leadership roles at Juniper Networks, Internet Photonics (Ciena), Lucent, and 3Com (HP).
Join us as we explore his relentless pursuit of cybersecurity solutions that safeguard the digital landscape and discover the man behind the mission to protect the connected world!
Seceon’s Vision: Delivering Comprehensive Cybersecurity for the Digital Era
Seceon was established with a clear purpose: to offer “Comprehensive Cybersecurity for the Digital Era” and tackle the significant cybersecurity challenges caused by digitalization. In the past, businesses usually strengthened their security measures by implementing various security tools like firewalls, SIEM, User Behavior Analytics, SOAR, EDR, DLP, Email/Web Filtering, and more while also maintaining a skilled SOC team.
However, with the rise of cloud computing and IoT, the potential targets for cyberattacks have increased significantly. Instead of relying on separate and isolated solutions, Seceon’s platform takes a proactive approach to identifying breaches and threats.
It accomplishes this by providing a comprehensive view of all assets, including users, applications, services, hosts, and their interactions. Additionally, it automates the immediate containment and removal of these threats in real-time.
Solutions for Real-time Threat Detection
Chandra co-founded Seceon in 2014 after personally experiencing a data breach that led to the loss of sensitive identity and credit card information. Along with the other co-founders, the team recognized the limitations of traditional perimeter security measures and fragmented cybersecurity approaches in safeguarding enterprises against attacks.
This drove them to develop an advanced platform capable of proactively detecting and stopping threats in real time rather than days or weeks later. Seceon offers fully automated solutions that provide real-time, proactive detection, containment, and elimination of various threat categories.
These include cybercrime (malware, ransomware, spyware, APTs), insider threats (compromised credentials, insider threats, privilege misuse, UEBA), denial of services for applications and protocols, vulnerability exploits for web/emails/OS applications, data breaches and exfiltration, detection of IT mistakes, IIoT/IoT cybersecurity, IDS, and network behaviors.
The company offers two main solutions: aiSIEM™ and aiMSSP™.
- Seceon’s aiSIEM™ platform collects raw streaming data from all devices, operating systems, applications, and services within the ecosystem, both on-premises and cloud-based. It also integrates flows such as NetFlow, IPFix, sFlow, and jFlow from network infrastructure and subscribes to identity management infrastructure like the Microsoft® Windows® Active Directory™ service, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, and Azure AD.
This streaming platform encompasses traditional SIEM functionalities, SOAR capabilities, user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA), network traffic analysis (NTA), network-based anomaly detection (NBAD), intrusion detection systems (IDS), threat intelligence feeds for correlation and enrichment, and advanced machine learning (ML).
Additionally, it utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) with actionable intelligence and proprietary feature engineering, as well as Policy 2.0, to proactively detect threats and breaches. It can automatically or manually initiate containment and elimination of threats in real-time while also ensuring continuous compliance and reporting. The aiSIEM platform generates meaningful alerts with contextual information, situational awareness, and enhanced accuracy, utilizing threat indicators typically analyzed by security experts.
- Seceon’s aiMSSP™ empowers Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) to offer outsourced security services, including 24×7 security monitoring, threat intelligence, proactive threat detection, and real-time containment and elimination, at minimal and expected costs.
This solution enables MSSPs to deliver affordable managed or co-managed security services, such as aiMDR, aiSIEM, and aiSOC, to organizations of all sizes. With aiMSSP, MSSPs can achieve growth without significant upfront investments by utilizing a pay-as-you-grow model. It also enables MSSPs to become Master MSSPs by acquiring new MSSP customers.
Innovative Approach to Cybersecurity
Chandra has instilled a culture of continuous innovation at Seceon, creating an environment where every team member is empowered to make decisions and communicate openly and respectfully. This approach has resulted in the development of Seceon’s award-winning solutions, which are the culmination of the hard work of over 50 dedicated professionals who are passionate about revolutionizing cybersecurity.
Right from the start, Seceon made a conscious decision to build a comprehensive cybersecurity platform. Despite receiving advice to include features that would appeal to potential buyers, the company remained focused on tackling the complex cybersecurity challenges that organizations have faced for many years. Seceon’s primary goal is to ensure “Cybersecurity Done RIGHT,” and this commitment drives their daily operations.
Today, Seceon’s aiMSSP and aiSIEM solutions are deployed globally, protecting thousands of customers and handling over 50 billion transactions and events on a daily basis. The company is on track to achieve the impressive milestone of processing 1 trillion transactions per day by the end of 2019. With a track record of winning over 80 cybersecurity awards since launching their platform in April 2016, Seceon continues to lead the way in redefining the cybersecurity landscape.
Overcoming Challenges Through Innovation
Seceon’s commitment to working through its channel partners initially presented some obstacles as it navigated the partner processes and approvals that sometimes caused delays in customer engagement. However, the company has since become better at identifying partners who share its goals and are motivated to streamline the process. Being a self-funded startup located outside the Silicon Valley and VC scene, Seceon faced the challenge of gaining recognition for its unique approach.
However, once businesses have a chance to try the product themselves, the feedback is overwhelmingly positive. What sets Seceon’s solution apart is its ability to quickly detect and neutralize threats while maintaining high speed, easy deployment and management, and minimal impact on performance without extensive human intervention.
Presently, Seceon OTM offers protection against a wide range of threat categories, including malware, ransomware, insider threats, and suspicious network behaviors. Seceon’s journey is defined by its ability to overcome challenges through innovative solutions that reshape the cybersecurity landscape.
Effective Capabilities
Seceon OTM stands out as a groundbreaking platform that takes a proactive and real-time approach to detect, contain, and eliminate a wide range of threat vectors. These encompass malware, ransomware, spyware, botnets, compromised credentials, insider threats, denial of service attacks on applications and protocols, vulnerability exploits on the web, email, and operating systems, data breaches and exfiltration, IT errors, intrusion detection systems, network behaviors, and more. By offering such comprehensive protection, OTM brings numerous advantages to businesses.
Let’s explore the top four benefits it delivers.
- Comprehensive Visibility: Seceon’s platform is built to handle various types of raw streaming data, including logs, packets, flows, and identities. It provides a comprehensive, real-time view of all assets, including users, hosts, servers, applications, data access and movement, and traffic. These assets can exist on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, offering extensive visibility and monitoring capabilities.
- Enhancing Threat Detection with a Proactive Approach: Seceon’s platform excels at proactively identifying threats, often in real-time or near real-time, without the need for agents or causing alert fatigue. This early threat detection is essential to minimize potential damage.
- Streamlining Threat Resolution with Automatic Remediation: Seceon goes beyond just detecting threats; it offers automatic containment and elimination of threats in real-time. It also provides clear, actionable steps to eradicate threats, which can be executed automatically or by security experts after thorough analysis.
- Ensuring Continuous Compliance, Policy Management, and Risk Monitoring: Seceon’s platform supports continuous compliance efforts by enabling scheduled and on-demand reporting to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, NIST, FINRA, and others. This capability simplifies policy management and enhances the overall security posture by effectively monitoring risks.
Extraordinary Rise to the Top
Seceon has had an extraordinary journey from its beginnings to its current position as a leading player in the cybersecurity industry. Since its establishment, the company has accomplished significant milestones and gained recognition from customers and experts in the field.
Despite the initial hurdles faced during the early stages of building the business, Seceon has successfully expanded its client base to include 35 customers, including service providers, Fortune 500 companies, and SMEs across different sectors. Throughout this journey, the company has maintained a strong focus on its customers, always prioritizing their needs and empowerment.
Seceon’s innovative approach to cybersecurity has garnered attention and praise. The Seceon Open Threat Management (OTM) Platform has been honored as a finalist in the Best of Show at Interop Tokyo and has been recognized for its leadership in Cybersecurity Innovation. The company’s inclusion in the prestigious Red Herring 100 North America list further cements its status as a trailblazer in the industry.
One of Seceon’s standout achievements is the development of an affordable cybersecurity solution that can automatically detect and stop various types of cyber threats within minutes of a breach, all without human intervention. This platform can be deployed in any environment, whether it’s private, hybrid, or public, and can be implemented quickly, even by untrained staff, without the need for constant rule updates or tuning.
Seceon’s approach tackles a fundamental flaw in traditional cybersecurity technologies, where human intervention is often required to identify and counter threats. Given the speed at which cyberattacks occur, humans often have limited time to react effectively. Seceon’s solution offers a straightforward and fully automated method for detecting and mitigating critical threats.
The company provides customers with a virtual Security Operations Center Assistant, streamlining threat detection and response. By automating this process, Seceon OTM enables staff to respond rapidly to threats and prevent potential risks or data loss.
This is achieved through the correlation of data from advanced machine learning and behavioral algorithms, providing relevant and prioritized alerts. As a result, Seceon has increasingly chosen to address complex security challenges, providing peace of mind to its customers.
Furthermore, Seceon’s dedication to innovation is evident in its numerous patent applications, covering areas such as parallel processing, behavioral analytics, and machine learning. The company continuously enhances its threat models to adapt to the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.
With its unified application capable of identifying both known and zero-day threats as well as automating detection and response, Seceon offers a solution that is adaptable to any environment. Its human-independent operation ensures that critical threats are swiftly communicated to staff via emails and texts. These technological advancements have played a crucial role in the company’s growth and expansion.
Enduring Devotion to Cybersecurity Excellence
The threat of data breaches in today’s digital economy is a growing concern for both small and large businesses. With the rise of intelligent and capable cyber threats, it is crucial to have a comprehensive platform approach that addresses the gaps left by isolated security solutions.
Seceon, a leader in the cybersecurity field, is constantly pushing the boundaries with its innovative platform and solutions. Every day, the company strives to outperform competitors and deliver significant value to its customers in an ever-changing landscape of cyber risks.
Data breaches have become increasingly common in the digital era, posing a significant risk to small and medium-sized businesses. However, even large enterprises are not immune to these threats. As cyber risk continues to escalate, Seceon recognizes the importance of offering a holistic platform approach that eliminates the need for multiple solutions and minimizes security vulnerabilities.
At the core of Seceon’s success is its visionary leadership team, comprised of industry experts in cybersecurity, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), fast/big data streaming, and dynamic threat modeling. Each team member brings decades of diverse experience and unique perspectives in the fields of cybersecurity and technology.
As Seceon navigates the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape, its unwavering mission is to provide advanced solutions that surpass the competition. The company’s dedication ensures that customers receive maximum value, empowering them to confidently tackle the complex and dynamic realm of cyber threats.
Accolades for its Cutting-edge Solutions
Seceon has received more than 100 cybersecurity awards since its platform launch in April 2016, recognizing the excellence of its aiSIEM and aiMSSP solutions. Recently, the company was honored with the NextGen Security Information Event Management (SIEM) award and the Publisher’s Choice Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) InfoSec award at the RSA Conference 2020.
Seceon’s remarkable achievements have caught the attention of influential industry experts, including 451 Research, Gartner, Ovum, Enterprise Management Associates, IDC Research, CSO International Data Group, Markets and Markets, and Solutions Review.
This recognition has solidified Seceon’s position as a leading player in the cybersecurity field. In fact, SeceonaiSIEM was acknowledged as a top solution in the “EMA Top 3 Decision Guide for Security Analytics” in 2019.
Additionally, Seceon has built an award-winning channel partner program, expanding its network to include over 100 Managed Service Providers, distribution partners, and resellers both domestically and internationally.
In January 2020, the company unveiled its sixth-generation platform, showcasing its ongoing commitment to innovation. Seceon consistently releases major software updates each year to ensure that its solutions remain at the forefront of the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape.
Commitment to Efficient and Affordable Cybersecurity
Seceon is fully devoted to delivering cost-effective and highly efficient solutions that can detect and eliminate cyber threats. Their main objective is to provide organizations of all sizes, including managed security service providers (MSSPs), with the ability to effectively protect themselves against cyber risks.
By equipping their customers with robust cybersecurity measures, Seceon enables them to focus on their core business objectives and missions. Chandra Shekhar Pandey, the CEO of Seceon, emphasizes their continuous commitment to innovation in their aiSIEM and aiMSSP solutions. Their ultimate aim is to offer “Comprehensive Cybersecurity for the Digital Era,” building trust and loyalty among partners and customers worldwide. Seceon’s dedication to excellence remains unwavering, and they fully understand the importance of maintaining the trust placed in them by their valued customers and partners.
