Nobody planned to steal $3 million from Sri Lanka. They planned to steal $500,000. Once. Quietly. And then disappear. But it worked so well the first time that they came back. And then came back again. And by the time anyone noticed, three separate government departments had sent money to three different fraudulent accounts. The …
Every few months, somewhere in the Indian startup and product company ecosystem, a finance team opens the AWS billing dashboard and has a quiet panic. The bill has doubled. Or tripled. Sometimes more. And the engineering team, when asked, cannot immediately explain why. This is not rare. It is one of the most common and …
Your AWS Bill Is Not an AWS Problem. It Is an Architecture Problem. Read More »
Just use AI… You spend a week understanding the requirement. You sit with your team. You scope it properly. You account for testing, deployment, and everything that makes the software actually work. You send a proposal. The reply comes back. “This seems high. Our friend says AI can do this in two weeks for much …
“Just Use AI.” Three Words That Are Killing Software Product Companies. Read More »
A few months ago, I was speaking with the owner of an auto component manufacturer based in PCMC. Good company. ISO 9001 certified. Strong quality systems. They had been chasing a German Tier 1 supplier for almost a year. They finally got a serious response. The German company was interested. Asked for a few documents. …
TISAX: The One Certificate Indian Manufacturers Are Losing European Contracts Without Read More »
A business owner, Founder of a mid-size company from our ‘Business Community’, a sharp guy, has been in the industry for 15 years — called me a few days ago, sounding genuinely frustrated. “Pramood,” he said, “we are paying for 6 SaaS tools. Half of them overlap. Every single one of them raised prices this …
“We Already Have a Firewall. Why Do We Need NAC?” I Hear This Every Week. Here Is My Honest Answer Almost every week, I sit across from an IT head or a CTO in a BFSI company, a manufacturer, or an NBFC — and within 10 minutes, I hear some version of the same sentence. …
Most IT managers and CISOs across Indian organisations don’t know exactly how many devices are connected to their network at any given moment. That gap — between what you think is on your network and what’s actually there — is where breaches begin… I have been working in network security across India for several years …
Your Business Is One Unverified Device Away from a Breach — Here’s What to Do About It Read More »
Password — a simple word, often ignored, often underestimated. Yet it is the first gatekeeper of every digital system we rely on. And when that password is weak, unchanged, or predictable, it becomes the beginning of the biggest cybersecurity disasters. This truth became painfully clear in a recent real-world incident where a hospital’s CCTV system …
The Password That Opened the Wrong Door — A Lesson Every Organisation Must Learn Read More »
A few weeks ago, I visited one of India’s well-known VFX studios to discuss Cybersecurity threats. It is an organisation with more than 120 artists and technicians, delivering high-end content to clients across the US, Canada, and major OTT platforms in India. Their CEO had invited me for a discussion on strengthening their security posture, …
How Serious Are You About Cybersecurity? A wake-up call for India’s Manufacturing SMEs Last year, a boiler-manufacturing company in Pune’s MIDC area became the victim of a “CEO-fraud” scheme. A WhatsApp message, seemingly from the firm’s director, instructed the company accountant to urgently transfer ₹1.95 crore for a business deal. The transfer was made …
How Serious Are You About Cybersecurity? A Reality Check for India’s Manufacturing SMEs Read More »
