Cybersecurity is of the utmost importance to companies of all sizes in today’s dynamic digital world. The ever-growing tech influence makes this field indispensable for businesses of all sizes. Hence, this calls for a service provider that can cater to the specific needs of business entities, and one such pioneer of the field is Manraaj Mand, Managing Director at Mand Consulting Group and co-founder and CEO of Watchdog Security, who has devoted his career to solving these problems. Thanks to his extensive experience in offensive security, Manraaj has established himself as a go-to expert for SMBs in need of top-tier cybersecurity solutions.
First Steps Towards Mand Consulting Group
While starting out in his career, Manraaj dove headfirst into the intricacies of offensive security at a big enterprise security firm. Infiltrating company infrastructures, accessing networks, and dissecting apps were all part of his regular duties. These events made him realize there was a need in the market for his own kind of efficient, high-quality penetration testing at a reasonable price. As a result, MCG was established more than six years ago.
What’s more, Manraaj has guided MCG to become a leading white-label penetration testing business in Canada, serving as a backend service provider for many major consultancies in the US and Canada. With 61% of SMBs falling victim to cyberattacks in 2021, the organization’s dedication to finding security holes in enterprise infrastructures is a key service. Besides its for-profit cybersecurity services, MCG runs a nonprofit that educates kids about ethical hacking and provides free cybersecurity services to other organizations.
Start of the Watchdog Security Movement
After years of fruitful penetration testing, Manraaj uncovered a major problem: most small companies have glaring, common cybersecurity vulnerabilities and problems. Even worse, most lacked access to inexpensive, cybersecurity solutions that effectively remedy these common vulnerabilities and problems.
Understanding this problem, Manraaj took his wealth of industry knowledge and founded Watchdog Security, which he saw as a chance for to fill this real and growing gap in the cybersecurity market. Leveraging his experience as an ethical hacker, he and his brother began to architect a solution around the question “What if we could develop a security solution that thinks like an attacker but protects like a guardian?”
In fact, the guiding premise behind Watchdog Security’s creation was to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with affordable, enterprise-grade, all-in-one security solutions. Considering that hackers value consumer data held by 87% of startups and that small company workers are 350% more likely to be victims of social engineering attacks than employees at bigger organizations, this project was crucial.
A Complete Answer to Cybersecurity
WatchDog Security an all-in-one cybersecurity tool that Startups and SMBs can leverage to secure their entire infrastructure – whether it’s their employees, their SaaS applications, their Cloud platforms or otherwise. Recognizing the need for immediate access (especially for the next generation of business owners), our SaaS-based platform automates the role of an information security analyst in an organization. By creating our versions of tools across multiple tool categories, we can interconnect the data and create more powerful insights than standalone platforms, securing your entire infrastructure under a single platform. We’ve worked hard to demystify cybersecurity for the average business owner, making it easy to understand for both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring they can both get valuable insights.
With just one membership, you get access to a comprehensive, constantly improving security toolbox. Small firms often have budgetary limitations when it comes to purchasing complete cybersecurity solutions. This strategy, which relies on a single subscription for all security related needs, aims to alleviate this problem. Plus, the current market solutions often have problems with integration and rely on manual chores, which might cause alert fatigue in workers.
Essentially, Watchdog Security’s solution seamlessly integrates industry-leading and proprietary tools. It provides a single source of truth and visibility, displaying easy-to-understand metrics that both technical and non-technical audiences can use. This allows businesses to measure the risk of their assets, employees, and overall organization effectively. Intelligent automation guides users through the process, enhancing the effectiveness of their information security program.
At the end of the day, there’s no denying that the solution offered by Watchdog Security effortlessly incorporates both popular and exclusive products from the market. It displays measurements in an approachable format that both technical and non-technical users can comprehend, creating a centralized repository of truth and transparency. As such, companies can accurately gauge the risk to their assets, workers, and the company as a whole. Users’ information security programs become more successful with the help of intelligent automation that walks them through the procedure.
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