In an insightful interaction with Venkateswaran Krishnamurthy, Chief Revenue Officer of Securekloud, sheds light on planning the company's expansion, approaches to ensuring a cloud environment, and focusing on AI-driven innovation. The discussion covers the company's cloud edge, data edge, and neutral zone platform, zero trust security, blockchain applications, cloud security trends, and how it will shape the future of adoption of enterprise clouds.
DQ: What is SecureKloud's future growth and revenue growth strategy?
In this conversation, we limit numbers to sacred. Still, nonetheless, the plan is to build an organization of 500 crores from the perspective of this entity and cover India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. That's the roadmap we're working on.
From a product roadmap perspective, it makes it very clear that today's products take us to a certain point, but beyond that, we need to invest a lot. That's exactly why our product development and engineering teams report directly to me. That's why we work together to move the company forward.
As a listed company, we can answer our stakeholders. So the idea is to ensure that all stakeholders, including employees, decision makers and boards, are satisfied with our growth trajectory.
DQ: Companies are rapidly migrating to cloud platforms, especially multi-cloud solutions. Have you identified a security gap? Also, how does SecureKloud deal with them?
SecureKloud has been on a journey to cloud migration and modernization since 2012. It was launched in 2008 and was the early initiator of cloud adoption in 2009. Honestly, we are one of the first premier partners of leading cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, and in 2009 and 2010 we will give this long-term experience.
One of the key challenges we observed in cloud adoption is cost optimization and security assurance. That's why we introduced Finops or Cloud Financial Management. Instead of simply selling cloud solutions, we employ an advisory approach with businesses and help us assess cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) before the migration.
Cloud security needs differ from industry to industry. BFSI organizations have strict compliance requirements, but manufacturers may focus more on scalability. Our approach is to customize the cloud strategy for all sectors and ensure security is built into the migration process.
To increase security and efficiency, we have developed Cloud Edge, a unique platform that allows businesses to migrate to the cloud within eight hours. The solution integrates with AWS, Azure, and GCP to ensure seamless transitions while ensuring perimeter defenses before deployment.
DQ: Can you explain in detail the platform (cloud edge, data edge, neutral zone) and its role in cloud security?
Yes, each of these platforms plays a different role in ensuring a seamless and SecureKloud migration.
Cloud Edge doesn't just migrate applications to the cloud. It's about automating the entire process while securing data and applications at every stage. When businesses move from on-premises to the cloud, Cloud Edge ensures that security measures are in place from day one.
Data Edge is a data engineering automation tool that works with Cloud Edge. As enterprises move data to the cloud, the data edge ensures compliance and data integrity throughout the process, ensuring it is safe and seamless.
Neutral zones are where multicloud strategies work. Today, many businesses use multiple cloud providers. For example, customers may use several more Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud for others, or AWS for some applications. Neutral zones help to segment these environments and ensure a structured approach to cloud security and governance.
The majority of our customer base consists of small and medium-sized businesses (small and medium-sized businesses). They often struggle with cloud transition due to limited IT expertise. So we also provide Cloud Managed Services to handle the entire client's cloud adoption lifecycle. India's Global Network Operations Center (NOC) manages cloud security globally for Fortune 500 clients.
DQ: Blockchain is gaining attention for enterprise security. How does SecureKloud's Blockage solution support the deployment of secure blockchains?
Blockchain as a technology is still evolving. Most people associate it with cryptocurrency, but the possibilities for enterprise security, supply chain management, and finance are far greater.
Blockage, a blockchain initiative, is currently in the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stage. We work actively with logistics, e-commerce and manufacturing clients to improve their capabilities.
Although we have reached functional MVP, blockchain is still developing as a distributed ledger technology, especially in multi-tenant environments. The dedicated Blockchain R&D team is committed to expanding enterprise applications focused on security, privacy and compliance.
DQ: How does SecureKloud integrate the Zero Trust Security Model into a Cloud Security Framework?
Zero Trust is based on basic principles. “Never trust me, always check.” Traditional security models that rely on perimeter defenses are no longer effective as cyber threats become more sophisticated.
Organizations today are demanding a comprehensive zero trust framework that goes beyond endpoints and network security. Instead of developing your own Zero Trust solutions, we partner with leading Zero Trust providers to provide you with complete security services.
The rise of CISOS (Chief Information Security Officer) is evidence of how cybersecurity has evolved from IT concerns to prioritization in the boardroom. Companies are currently prioritizing zero trust security investments, ensuring continuous authentication, minimal privileged access and adaptive security policies to protect their environment.
DQ: With the rise of serverless computing, how is SecureKloud taking advantage of its serverless architecture?
At this point we are still in the discovery stage when it comes to serverless computing. Given the history of early adoption (Cloud in 2008, AI in 2012), we recognize the potential of serverless technology.
Although there are no fully developed serverless architecture solutions today, the R&D team is actively researching how to integrate into the cloud security ecosystem.
DQ: What are the top cloud security trends that businesses should prepare for over the next five years?
One of the biggest security challenges today is that threat actors are evolving faster than enterprise security teams. Hackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated and lead to constant innovation in cybersecurity measures.
For listed companies, cyber violations can have a significant impact on stock prices, valuations and customer trust. This is why board discussions are now prioritizing cybersecurity investments as part of business risk management.
The major cloud security trends include:
Adopts Zero Trust as organizations move from traditional firewalls to authentication-based security models. Regulatory compliance requirements, particularly in BFSI and healthcare, must comply with IRDA, RBI and other security standards. AI-driven threat detection. Companies leverage AI for predictive security and automated incident response. Hybrid and multi-cloud security as businesses employ more complex cloud infrastructures.
DQ: SecureKloud is investing in AI-driven innovation. Can you share insights about AI products?
We have developed docuedge.ai, an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform with a large-scale language model (LLM). Already used:
Automatic document verification (e.g. bank statements, KYCs, invoices, etc.). A financial institution's AI-led loan approval. Healthcare applications (e.g., automating discharge overviews).
Additionally, Readable.AI is another solution that promotes electronic health record (EHR) processing in hospitals. AI and Agent AI architectures play a key role in enterprise automation, improving efficiency, accuracy and predictive analytics.
