DeBolle invests in talent and training
California-based Menlo Security is set to expand team by up to 60 software engineers to roll out more products, such as ‘browser isolation’ from Bengaluru office which was opened early 2021.
“We expect to hire up to 60 engineers next year,” co-founder and chief product officer Poornima DeBolle said on 19 Oct 2022 on the sidelines of the Singapore International Cyber Week 2022.
The company also plans to hire more junior talent, those with experience of two to five years, in the coming year, and train them to develop new cyber security products.
“We invest in talent and take them to our operations in the US and Singapore for further developing their skill,” Press Trust of India quoted DeBolle as saying.
“We will build products in India and deliver to India as well as from India,” she said of her long-term plans that widely aligns with the Indian Government’s vision of having industries in the country to make for the world.
Noting that the matured engineering talent in Bengaluru is as comparable to those in Silicon Valley, DeBolle shared her decision to have an Indian hub after having checked on the availability of talent in Spain, Ireland and Mexico.
“We decided in late 2020 to set up the Indian office for our global product expansion plans, as it became challenging to expand in our offices in the US and the UK.”
Once the Bengaluru office was finalized, DeBolle quickly gathered a team of 40-engineers in early 2021 and had the first cloud-based product shipped to global clients within nine months.
In 2023, the team of 60 engineers in Bengaluru office will double to 120, she added.
The first product, Menlo Private Access, was delivered in the first quarter of this year, said the Bengaluru-born and California-based engineer turned entrepreneur.
More products are in the pipeline, said DeBolle who led her Singapore-based team to display a range of products at the three-day Cyber week held 18-20 Oct 2022.
DeBolle is working on a couple of different product lines, but all on cyber security, including browser isolation and enhancing the first made-in-India product Menlo Private Access.
“As migration to the cloud quickens and application workloads move to SaaS, security is being rearchitected to meet a new set of challenges,” she said.
“Menlo Security is at the forefront of this shift, empowering organizations to adapt and map their journey to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and beyond.”
The company believes:
Security should prevent, not react.
Organizations shouldn’t have to sacrifice productivity for security.
Perfect security is possible.
As a group of unrelenting cybersecurity experts, Menlo Security pioneered an entirely reimagined, impervious approach to security.
“One that’s built on Zero Trust principles and that leverages isolation as a core architectural pillar. It’s the only way to truly eliminate malware, secure work, and protect productivity—the stuff that matters most to the businesses we work with and their end users,” said the company. fiinews.com
