Kerala-based startup bags Indian Icon Award in Cyber Security
text_fieldsNew Delhi: TechByHeart, a Kerala-based Software Services and Cyber Security Consultant startup has bagged a national-level award in cyber security.
The Kochi-based company has been awarded the "Best Cyber Security Startup in India" at the prestigious Indian Icon Awards 2023, jointly given by the Global Chamber of Consumer Rights and Kites Craft Production.
It is for the first time a startup from Kerala is being selected for such an honour.
The award function was held in New Delhi’s Dwarka, in which the company’s CEO Sajad Chemmukkan received the award from former Puducherry Governor Kiran Bedi. Around 150 companies from different backgrounds were represented at the ceremony.
Three months before, TechByHeart was also selected for another prestigious award jointly presented by the World Humanitarian Foundation and Trident Communication, for the best Indian startup in the area of cyber security.
In 2017, the company started off as a startup under the leadership of the present Chairman Sreenath Gopinath and the CEO Sajad Chemmukkan.
The startup shot to success within a short span of time and now has seven offices and more than fifty employees spread across these locations.
Apart from Kochi, it has offices in Kottakkal, Kannur, Bengaluru and Dubai.
TechByHeart is also keen on acquainting students with new-age opportunities in cyber security.
The company has been conducting programmes to spread awareness about cyber security, cyber forensics, ethical hacking, website protection and digital marketing among students and professionals.
The company is also known to have joined hands with the highest number of educational institutions in the country to impart training in cyber security.
It has also conducted cyber security awareness programmes in hundreds of educational institutions.