Security shouldn't require five vendors and a translator between them
SkandaShield exists to make cybersecurity easier and simpler — a single, AI-enabled point of contact for testing, monitoring, and compliance, run by people who do the work themselves.
That work is carried by a dedicated security research team — the same engineers who scope, test, and report on your engagement also spend part of every week on original research across the full spectrum of offensive security, cloud and infrastructure, AI and LLM systems, and open-source supply-chain risk. Client work and research feed each other: a technique proven in the field becomes a testing method the whole team uses; a pattern spotted in research becomes something we check for on your next assessment.
One point of contact for all your security needs
Most organisations end up stitching together a penetration testing vendor, a monitoring tool, a compliance consultant, and an internal team that has to translate between all three. SkandaShield was built to close that gap — a single team and a single platform that carries a client from first assessment through continuous protection to audit-ready documentation.
We measure ourselves on whether security got simpler for the people who have to live with it every day, not on how many findings fit in a PDF.
AI for judgment, not just alerts
Most tools tell you something happened after the fact. The SkandaShield platform is built to reason about attack paths before they're walked — correlating signals across your environment to flag which weaknesses are actually reachable and worth fixing first, instead of another undifferentiated alert queue.
That same discipline shows up in our research: technical articles that break down real attack techniques, a structured 90-day study plan, and practical playbooks that our own consultants use on engagements.
Founder-led delivery
Engagements are architected and reviewed directly by the co-founders — enterprise depth without vendor sprawl.
Kumar Sivarajan
Co-FounderSerial entrepreneur with 25 years of industry experience across IT software products, solutions, automation, and gaming.
Sibi Chakravarthy
Co-Founder15-year cybersecurity expert; consultant and advisor to the Government of India, Andhra Pradesh, and top Indian corporates.
The people fulfilling your request are the people doing the research
SkandaShield doesn't separate "delivery" from "research" into two teams that never talk. The engineers who handle customer engagements are the same ones running cutting-edge research across the spectrum below — so what they learn this week can show up in your assessment next week, not in a paper nobody on your account ever reads.
Offensive Security & Exploit Research
New exploitation techniques, chained attack paths, and injection variants — tracked and folded straight into VAPT engagements.
Cloud & Infrastructure Research
Misconfiguration patterns and identity attack paths across major cloud providers, feeding the risk scoring behind the SkandaShield platform.
AI, LLM & Agentic Security Research
Jailbreak techniques, model-level attacks, and agent-swarm failure modes — the foundation behind AI & LLM Security.
Open-Source Supply Chain Research
Dependency, build-pipeline, and AI-agent supply-chain threats tracked continuously for SecureOSS 360.
The published side of this work — technical write-ups, the 90-day study plan, and practical playbooks — lives on the Research page. What doesn't get published is the part that goes straight into your report: findings, threat models, and remediation guidance built on research that's current, not recycled from a checklist written years ago.
Different stage, same need for clarity
Cloud-native & growth-stage teams
Startups and SaaS companies shipping quickly, who need testing and guardrails that keep pace with their release cycle instead of slowing it down.
Organisations in regulated environments
Teams handling sensitive data or operating under external scrutiny, who need controls and documentation they can stand behind during an audit.
Educational institutions & enterprises in transformation
Institutions modernising infrastructure and large organisations mid-migration, who need a partner that understands both legacy constraints and where they're headed.
Engagements typically start one of three ways: a focused assessment against a specific application or release, an onboarding to the SkandaShield platform for continuous coverage, or a longer-term advisory relationship spanning both.
How we actually work
Five steps, run by the same team every time — from the first threat model to the research that shapes your next assessment.
Threat modelling first
Before a single test case is written, we map what an attacker actually gains from your specific architecture — the data worth stealing, the systems worth disrupting, the identities worth compromising — not a generic checklist run against every client. This is where our research team's current view of active attack techniques gets applied to your environment specifically, so the assessment targets what a real adversary would try this quarter, not last year's threat model.
Clear, prioritised reporting
Findings are ranked by real-world exploitability and business impact, not raw scanner severity, with an executive summary that a non-technical stakeholder can act on immediately and technical detail deep enough for the engineer who has to fix it. Every finding includes reproduction steps and evidence — nothing lands in your report that our own team hasn't verified by hand.
Collaborative remediation
We sit with engineering teams to close findings, not just hand over a document and disappear — walking through root cause, discussing trade-offs where a "correct" fix isn't practical on your timeline, and retesting once fixes are shipped so a finding is actually closed, not just marked as addressed.
Education and upskilling
Every engagement includes a knowledge-transfer session with the engineers who did the work, not a generic training deck. Our research and 90-day study plan exist for the same reason — so client teams keep improving between assessments instead of waiting for the next audit to learn something new.
Research, continuously
The team that just delivered your assessment spends part of every week researching new attack techniques, cloud misconfiguration patterns, AI and agent-security failure modes, and open-source supply-chain threats. That work doesn't sit in a lab — it becomes next quarter's testing methodology, and it's why a SkandaShield engagement two years from now will look different from one today, because the threat landscape will have too.