With the next level of digital transformation happening in today's digital era, cyber security has become a very important factor. From small to large, all kinds of companies are inclined to implement cybersecurity solutions in their operations as well as in data storage. Tsaaro is such data protection and cyber security company that advises and helps organizations to take charge of their data privacy and cyber security.

Analytics Insight has engaged in an exclusive interview with Akarsh Singh, CEO, and Co-Founder of Tsaaro.

1. Kindly brief us about the company, its specialization and the services that your company offers.

Tsaaro is a data protection and cyber security company that advises and helps organizations take charge of their data privacy and cyber security. Equipped with a diverse team of data privacy consultants, information security experts, and renowned lawyers, Tsaaro helps their clients to build resilient and robust privacy systems to secure their businesses. Tsaaro believes in providing solutions tailored to your organizational requirements, aligned with your budget and resource constraints.

At Tsaaro, we provide data protection, InfoSec, and pen testing services. Our data protection services include regulatory assessment, vendor assessment, privacy risk management, and product assessment. Our team also focuses on regulatory process implementation. As a part of our InfoSec services, we offer 'Cyber Security Maturity Assessment', 'Cyber Strategy and Governance', 'Information Risk Management, 'Third Party Risk Assessment', 'Information Security Management System and CISO' as a service. Our penetration testing services include application penetration testing, external network PT, AWS PT, secure code review, config review – network devices, and red team to name a few.

2. With what mission and objectives, the company was set up? In short, tell us about your journey since the inception of the company?

It all started with a belief that data privacy and cybersecurity are different battles that need to be fought relentlessly by each and every organization. Our aim was to create an efficient data secure environment for our clients from different industries.

We started with helping businesses across technology companies and new-age start-ups, secure their applications, through future-ready solutions that help keep up with the changing technology landscape. With time, Tsaaro has also taken a pragmatic approach to provide their clients with practical and workable solutions, as well as support them to deal with a wide range of security and privacy-related challenges and also help them to navigate the legal and regulatory complexities of data protection regulations. Our strength lies in assessing security risks, monitoring for threats, and safeguarding applications against compliance issues.

3. What is your biggest USP that differentiates the company from competitors?

The thing that differentiates our company from our competitors is the expert-level knowledge our team possesses in the field of data privacy. Our team consists of members who come from diverse backgrounds with experience from working in some of the top international organizations.  Our people not only have vast experience in data protection and privacy, but they also possess a deep understanding of complex technologies and how they function. Apart from that, Tsaaro also believes in providing solutions tailored to the organizational requirements, aligned with their budget and resource challenges which differentiate us from our competitors.

4. How do you plan to revolutionize the Indian or international market and what are your plans to tap both markets?

We are tapping into the Indian and international markets by helping SMEs and startups introduce data privacy and cyber security measures that are being implemented by the leading companies in their respective industries and all of this while being aligned to their budget and resources. With the aim to choose smart work over hard work, we are also working towards automating the process of compliance, securing data with the help of different technologies that will put our clients a step ahead of the rest.

5. What is the edge your company has over other players in the industry?

With the help of our automated compliance procedures, we have an edge over other companies in the industry as we reduce the time taken for compliance as compared to the traditional methods. The edge Tsaaro has over other companies in the industry is that Tsaaro also does business in the Netherlands, US, and Malaysia and tries to implement the learnings from such international experiences and brings the same quality of work in India.

6. Where in your perspective, is the company going from here?

From here, we are moving towards making it easy for startups and organizations to comply with India's Data Protection Bill, 2021, and global privacy regulations. As we move forward, we also focus on not compromising on the quality of services we provide to each and every client of ours. Our clientele has grown from 1 to 50 in such a short duration and we cannot wait to support more organizations in securing their data.

7. Kindly mention some of the major challenges the company has faced till now.

One of the major challenges that we have faced has been bringing the right talent on board. The team is what makes a company what it is so that has been our main focus since Day 1. The second major challenge has been the time and resources that go into the research analysis. While we are working towards automation, research plays a key role as we are looking to solve problems in ways that haven't been done before hence that has been a major challenge so far.