Caveonix: Delivering Compliance, Security, and Governance with Kaus Phaltankar in the Helm

2017 Caveonix, an industry-first unified platform for hybrid multi-cloud governance, compliance, and security
management, the brainchild of Kaus Phaltankar, Co-founder and CEO, is revolutionizing the cloud security
landscape. Designed to safeguard applications across a variety of contexts, including containers, cloud-native
services, and conventional three-tiered architectures, Caveonix’s platform provides constant protection,
useful insights, and cutting-edge AI-powered technology.

With a highly modular platform, Caveonix creates a solution for challenging security and compliance issues
for organizations around the world. Caveonix is available in a variety of deployment models, from a multi-
tenant public SaaS offering to a focused solution for clients in extremely sensitive sectors like finance,
healthcare, defense, and the public sector.

From SMBs to large Fortune 1000 companies, the platform serves a broad clientele and offers modular
capabilities that can be tailored to an organization's requirements, allowing organizations to integrate, adapt,
and grow as they embrace advanced cloud technologies. Their mission is to automate and reduce the cost of
compliance and security as customers transform their businesses while delivering on their vision.

Caveonix empowers organizations to prioritize findings and stay continuously compliant with over 45 local
and global regulatory requirements. The platform has gained the trust of multiple Fortune 1000 businesses
worldwide by automating the evaluation and protection of business applications at scale using its Neural-
Insight AI engine. With over 1 million cloud assets in a hybrid cloud environment, Caveonix is the single
largest worldwide enterprise deployment and keeps establishing new benchmarks for governance,
compliance, and security in hybrid clouds.

Caveonix’s Innovative Portfolio

Envisioned to empower businesses to accelerate innovation and transformation by focusing on what matters,
Caveonix was created to help organizations and their IT teams meet the most demanding security,
compliance, and governance challenges in the contemporary digital landscape. This results in increased
productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings, and an all-around improved security,
compliance, and risk posture. The platform's creative powers have made it a game-changer for enterprises
seeking proactive risk management. The platform includes:

AI-Powered Neural- Insight The AITM engine, a part of the platform, supports secure DevOps by
continuously evaluating the whole development cycle, from coding to deployment, according to CNAPP. In a
CI/CD pipeline, Caveonix uses the shift-left methodology to perform thorough security checks in
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) before and during deployment, thereby removing any potential vulnerabilities at
the source. Caveonix ensures secure application development from the ground up using intelligent risk
identification for IaC code and insights from SAST and DAST code analysis tools.

● Automated eGRC: Governance, risk, and compliance management are streamlined by Caveonix's
automated eGRC. The platform promotes continuous authorization to operate (cATO) readiness by
standardizing workflows and creating scenarios. In the entire organization, Caveonix supports
accountability, efficiency, compliance, and risk management through seamless collaboration between
 internal controls and external standards. It also automates ongoing evaluation, recording, and
reporting, which significantly speeds up audits.
● Strong Anomaly Detection: The cutting-edge DefenseBotTM technology component of the platform
provides unrivaled accuracy in protecting workloads and cloud-native applications. The platform's
Neural-Insights AITM engine locates anomalies in network flows, runtime data, user and application
behavior, and endpoint quarantining to contain infections. Organizations are better able to respond
quickly to possible threats, minimizing harm and managing organizational risk, thanks to this increased
visibility.
● Automated Zero-Trust: Caveonix automates the adoption of Zero-Trust across hybrid cloud estates
using insights from operational and runtime data. The technology offers seamless policy enforcement
by standardizing flow assessments and and strengthening security precautions without adding
complexity.
● Customizable Dashboard: Caveonix provides fully customizable dashboards in recognition of the
many functions played inside enterprises. The ability to customize dashboards allows security
analysts, compliance officers, infrastructure engineers, and developers to respond more quickly to
threats and compliance needs.
● Intuitive Insights: The intuitive insights dashboard offers role-specific statistics, enabling employees
to quickly and accurately analyze risks. Users may prioritize corrective actions to protect their hybrid
cloud assets by using a comprehensive library of insights across numerous categories, including risk,
compliance, CIEM, network, policy violations, IAM, and serverless containers.
● Enhanced Attack Path Visibility: Through its risk insights function, it delivers risk analytics and
quantification. A clear graphical representation of attack routes is made possible by organizations'
ability to identify and evaluate significant risk combinations matched against their most valuable
applications. This improved visibility speeds up understanding of the kill chain for swift remediation.

The Spirit Behind the Success

The story of Kaus Phaltankar exemplifies a blend of technical prowess, entrepreneurial spirit, and an
innovative mindset!

A solid academic background and a persistent thirst for innovation and entrepreneurship have distinguished
Kaus Phaltankar's professional career. His career in telecom got off to a strong start with a bachelor's degree
in radio frequency (RF) and microwave technology. With a Master's in computer science and
telecommunications, Kaus developed his skills in data communications utilizing TCP/IP, the Internet's
founding protocol, and is now better prepared to face the difficulties presented by the continuously changing
technology landscape.

Kaus' entrepreneurial spirit led him to launch his first company, NetPlexus, focusing on providing managed
security services. He established ViewTrust, a company that specializes in cybersecurity tools for businesses
in the public and private sectors, including intrusion detection, SIEM, and GRC. In order to meet the expanding
demand for cloud deployment security and comprehensive risk management solutions for hybrid cloud
deployments, Kaus established Caveonix in 2017.

Caveonix‘s Insights on Diversity and Inclusion

Caveonix promotes an environment that fosters dynamism and innovation by placing diversity and
inclusiveness at the center of its ideals. They truly think that different viewpoints and experiences improve
the collective intelligence of the business and produce better decision-making. Caveonix actively promotes
diversity in the workplace to make sure that every person is enabled to share their individual talents and
ideas and feels valued and respected for doing so.

In addition to its employment procedures, Caveonix is committed to diversity and inclusion during hiring also.
No matter their gender, age, religion, or place of residence, the organization places a high priority on
evaluating each candidate's capacity to contribute to the team.

Addressing the Major Industry Concerns

Organizations are implementing cost-cutting strategies and aiming for efficiency through resource
consolidation as a result of the economic climate. Maintaining a carefully controlled cost structure is a priority
for Caveonix. Organizations have been greatly exposed to risks and vulnerabilities as a result of the
exponential development and quick adoption of cloud technology. They are making significant investments in
the creation of AI-driven solutions that offer thorough evaluations and insightful data so that the security and
compliance teams of their clients can take prompt, prioritized action.

Giving back to the community

The man behind the brand, Kaus Phaltankar, believes in giving back through teaching. In addition to actively
supporting non-profit groups like AFCEA in their efforts to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics) programs at both the high school and university levels, he has taught pro bono at a
number of universities. He hopes to have a positive effect and help create a future where everyone can live in
equity and prosperity through these activities.

Additionally, they are dedicated to reducing the Caveonix platform's negative environmental effects. The
team's ability to deliver the solution is made possible by the "dark mode of operation" option, which lessens
eye strain, encourages sustainable lifestyles, and reduces the carbon footprint.

Road Ahead

Caveonix is further looking to build the next generation of solutions to address the challenges of the near
future by investing in companies and mentoring entrepreneurs who can make these visions a reality.

Kaus is dedicated to helping to create a practical curriculum that is geared toward students, professionals,
and instructors. This curriculum will make use of cutting-edge tools like deep learning, machine learning, and
natural language processing to develop a trained workforce that can effectively defend theway of life from
cyberattacks.