Poornima DeBolle, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Menlo Security: Commanding global R&D operations
Menlo Security, a leading cloud security company, has embarked on expanding its operations in India by recently inaugurating its Centre of Excellence (CoE) based out of Bengaluru. The newly established CoE, spread across 6,000 square feet, has got over 50 employees, many of them hardcore software engineers & developers. However, Menlo Security plans to recruit more engineers to buttress the existing manpower in developing key security products.
With close to 10 percent of the company’s global staff based in Bangalore, the CoE serves as an R&D facility for new technologies, and as a support hub for customers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and around the globe. Clients include some of the biggest organisations in APAC, including banks, airlines, and world-leading technology firms.
Poornima DeBolle, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Menlo Security, “Menlo is at a very exciting stage of its growth, and India is an important part of our growth story. We’re making significant investments in this market with a multi-functional product team of R&D, security research, cybersecurity training, and global customer support and professional services.
“In addition to tapping into the incredible talent in India for our product development, we are also excited about bringing our market leading Isolation Platform to this market to help with cybersecurity challenges created by increased Internet penetration. We see an increase in highly evasive adaptive threats (HEAT) targeting Indian companies and governments. We look forward to partnering with leading cybersecurity channels in India to deliver protection against web and email threats,” added DeBolle.
Menlo Private Access (MPA), launched in 2022, was the first product to be developed in India, providing a new approach to Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) with fast, seamless access to internal applications without relying on legacy VPN services. It helps secure web applications from untrusted users and endpoints without impacting employee productivity, and with Menlo’s unique Isolation Core, isolates threats before they reach the end user.
Menlo Security has identified a new class of threats that target the web browser. Known as highly evasive adaptable threats (HEAT) they employ various techniques to evade detection by multiple layers in the current security stack, including firewalls, secure web gateways, sandboxing, URL reputation, and phishing detection. In 2022, the Menlo Labs threat team observed a 224 percent increase in HEAT attacks in the second half of 2021, and after analysing more than a million malicious URLs, found that 69 percent of them leveraged HEAT tactics.
Menlo Security’s solutions have been deployed by more than 100 government agencies throughout the world, including the US department of defense (DoD) and state, local, and education departments (SLED) across the United States. Menlo Cloud Security Platform enables organisations to isolate their networks, employees, and data from malware, ransomware, spyware and zero-day exploits. Eight of the 10 largest banks, Fortune 500 companies and FSIs are currently using Menlo Security.
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