Exclusive interview with Mr. Sonit Jain, CEO, GajShield Infotech
The journey of GajShield started from a garage in Mumbai to establishing a strong business footprint in over 7 continents (apart from India) which includes Europe, United States, Middle East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN. GajShield was the first Indian Company to have been certified by ICSA Labs for consecutive 15 years, putting India in the Firewall market map to being reorganized by Gartner’s in their Asia Pacific context: “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls”.
Businesses have become dependent on being connected 24*7 to the internet for doing business and maintaining business operations up and running. We have witnessed a paradigm shift in the way cyber threats have evolved, exploiting this change in the role of the internet as a crucial part of the business process and there is a steep rise in cyber-attacks. Looking at this trend, organizations have started realising the importance of cybersecurity only to be aided by the COVID-19 pandemic. The enterprises are looking for protection against evolving viruses, malware attacks and protection from data threats, being the key concern for many. This increased awareness and visibility impact on business has accelerated the implementation of cybersecurity in enterprises.
What are some of the best solutions provided by GajShield? How is it different from other brands?
At GajShield, we understand the importance of data and its value as an asset to organizations. Our Firewall Platform offers solutions like:
- Context-Based Data Leak Prevention Solution.
- Enterprise Cloud security for roaming users
- SD-Wan
- E-Mail Security and more
Since Data threats have evolved and cyber attackers exploit various vulnerabilities and loopholes in the current security solution. Relying on an older approach to security will no longer work efficiently. Our Firewalls solution uses an all-new Data Security Approach which keeps data at the centre of all the security initiatives as opposed to the older and weaker perimeter security. This means gaining complete visibility on each and every piece of data leaving the enterprise’s network, deeper than traditional layer-7 information. This approach combined with our integrated Data Leak Prevention Solution takes appropriate action to protect organizations’ critical data being illicitly used and prevent exploitation, improving the overall health of data security in an organisation.
What are your plans to re-strategising the cyber security after Covid -19?
Cybersecurity is an ever-evolving process and has to be constantly updated. With COVID-19 outbreak, it has only proven to be a stronger statement. It has brought a shift in how we work today by adopting a Work From Home setup for business continuity, but complicating security for enterprises and questioning data security. This has created the need for a solution that enables enterprises to have visibility on these work from home/remote users and protect them from attack. GajShield’s Enterprise Cloud solution brings these work from home users under the head office firewall and enforces all the traffic through the firewall, complying them with enterprise security policies to ensure security and prevent data exploitation, being a major concern. As a gesture towards helping enterprise maintain business continuity in this testing times, we have rolled out limited free licenses for our customers and are supporting them 24*7 with our remote support setup.
As the Prime Minister has given emphasis for ‘Made in India’ products, Are there any initiatives by GajShield to promote ‘Vocal for Local’ in India?
GajShield has launched a major campaign to amplify our Prime Minister’s vision to support indigenous brands and encouraging Indian buyers to buy Indian products. GajShield products are mature and are backed with strong quality and innovation, which are already well accepted across the globe in over 7 continents. The recent call ‘Vocal for Local’, will bring the pride back to select and accept quality Indian products which are Made in India, built for the World. Our dedication and “keep Innovating” attitude has resulted in products and solutions that are ahead of its time, making us to not only compete with other international brands but to help reach corners of the world.
How is GajShield’s Next Generation Firewall different from traditional Firewalls?
GajShield’s Newer Generation Firewalls addresses various inabilities of the traditional firewall like limited data visibility, older perimeter security approach to no security for roaming users and help organizations tackle their zero-day security challenges, preparing them for future. Our firewall allows enterprises to gain better control over the threat surface and prevent data exploitation. It acts as a platform by integrating various security solutions like a context-based network data leak prevention solution that helps to prevent data exploitation on the web, saas/cloud & network with deeper data visibility anda granular reporting for better security.
Further, it also incorporates solutions to addresses the often unspoken threats, being internal threats including the roaming users. Our solution brings visibility on their activities,allows controlling how data is used on various platform preventing both intentional and unintentional threats.
These abilities of our firewall to help prevent data exploitation and more, being the need of the hour and address the shortcomings of a traditional firewall over and above the needed protection from external threats makes our firewall solution different from the traditional firewall.
Are you planning to launch any new product in the coming times? Can you explain more about it?
Yes, Data has become the new oil and it is evident with the whole world now being data-driven, to protect it has become the priority for organizations of all sizes and it is high time that the Last Generation Firewall needs not only an update but a complete overhaul in the way it secures enterprises and their digital assets.
Enterprises have become data-driven, these data include critical business strategies, customer information and a lot more. To protect it from being exploited has become a priority for both enterprises and regulatory authorities. The greatest Challenges with preventing data exploitation today are the vanishing perimeter and increased adoption of digital work culture, being the primary security limitations of Traditional Firewalls. At GajShield, we have identified these loopholes that cybercriminals exploit and have come up with a solution that address not only these intentional actions but also to prevent unintentional data mishandling.