Trishneet Arora’s startup offers cyber security solutions to India’s premier investigative agencies, including the CBI

The US we see today would not have been “great” without the hard-work of Indian techies. President Donald Trump should actually thank Indian parents of yore for discouraging their children from dropping out of schools/colleges, forcing them to secure a Degree or MS from IIT/IIM or any other premier educational institutions, and sending them away to the US to take up a high-paying job at MNCs. They are, after all, making America great.

Dropping out of schools/colleges was an anathema in India until a few years ago. Parents never encouraged their children to quit schooling to follow their passion or dreams. Even if you were an extraordinary singer, you could not have thought of pursuing a career in music until you finished schooling/college education. Education first, passion second. Needless to day, India did not produce a Google or Facebook of its own, in spite of having a huge talent pool.

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Certainly, the scenario has changed drastically. Todays’s parents have given total freedom to their children, and as a result, numerous startups have cropped up and the ecosystem benefitted tremendously, boosting the economy of the country. India now has an answer to Amazon and Uber, and it is now home to many startup unicorns.

But when Trishneet Arora was a child in the mid 2000s, India was still under the influence of this typical “MNC” mindset. But he didn’t want to maintain the status quo. He was dreaming of something big in life.

As he moved higher up in the educational ladder, his interests in schooling waned. This apathy towards formal education became strong when he got a computer when he was just 11 year old. He soon started experimenting with it and learned all aspects of the technology. He gradually learnt to hack, and within a short period, he mastered his newly-found passion. As a result of his computer fanaticism, Arora failed in class VIII examination and soon dropped out of school. He completed his class X through open learning.

But that was the breakthrough in his life. Arora, based in Ludhiana, went on to build his own security startup. It is now a highly sought-after cyber security startup in India.

“When hacking become a craze for me, I could not focus on studies. As a result, I failed in two subjects and consequently failed in the annual exam,” Arora told e27. “When I decided to take up hacking as a career option, many people frowned at me and said I was a nerd. But when I noticed that that many MNCs are victims of hacking, it prompted to me to start a company in cyber security.”

The startup, TAC Security Solutions, has now grown beyond India and provides protection to corporations against network vulnerabilities and data theft. It also provides cyber security training. Its clientele include the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s premier investigative agency, in addition to the Punjab Police, Gujarat Police, Reliance Industries Limited, Amul, Ralson (India), and Avon Cycles. Outside of India, it now also has clients in Dubai and the UK.

His company recently launched a new solution called TAC-CERT, which is aimed at helping those whose websites, emails, cloud data, and other digital assets, from getting hacked.

Arora is not just an entrepreneur now. He is a veritable wizard of technology, a cyber security expert, ethical hacker, and avid speaker on security solutions. At the age of 23, he has already accomplished a whole lot things that his peers could not even dream of.

Until now, Arora had been securing client websites from cyber threats. However, he now believes there is a bigger market for his company in case of a cyber attack, wherein clients stand to lose all online data, which he can help secure.

Arora has also written three books, all on hacking: The Hacking Era, Hacking Talk, and Hacking With Smart Phones.

There are umpteen child prodigies in India, but what makes Arora different from them is that he fought all adverse situations in life. Even when “startup” was still a strange word, he went on to build something that caught the interest of clients as big as national investigation agencies and enterprises in India and beyond.

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