Ananda is the co-founder and CTO of Astra Security, a security suite that helps businesses stay safe online. Security Engineer by day, FullStack by night. Wrote his first Remote administration tool (RAT) at 14 and has been acknowledged by United Airlines, Microsoft, Kotak etc. for finding critical security vulnerabilities. Techstarts ‘18 alumni. Astra is the winner of the Best Security Product at Global Conference on Cyberspace 2017 and Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, Wuxi, China.
Ananda Krishna is the co-founder & CTO of Astra Security, a SaaS suite that secures businesses from cyber threats. Now a security architect & full-stack developer, Ananda wrote his first Remote administration tool (RAT) at the age of 14.
He has been acknowledged by Indian Navy, Microsoft, United Airlines etc. for finding critical security vulnerabilities in their systems. Winner of the Best Security Product at Global Conference on Cyberspace 2017 (awarded by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India) & French Tech Ticket, Paris (awarded by François Hollande, Former President of France).
After helping some top businesses around the globe secure their websites & apps, realized a gap in security solutions being used. Led to Astra, with an aim to make security super simple for business owners. Astra is a Techstars alumni from the Berlin cohort, which puts the company in the likes of DigitalOcean, Sendgrid, Uber etc.
At Astra he’s building an intelligent security ecosystem – web application firewall (WAF), malware detection & analysis, large scale SaaS applications, APIs & more.