Surojit Dasgupta, the former Country Manager for Lookout has joined Appdome India this week.
As the Director for the South Asia Region, he will be leading Appdome’s expansion in the BFSI segment, South Asia and India. India specifically is a mobile first economy and is leading the world with the adoption of financial transactions via mobile apps. Dasgupta’s mission is to help BFSI brands in region to better protect their customers against mobile threats, fraud and malware and compliance with regulatory guidelines.
In a short conversation with APAC News Network, Dasgupta answers a few questions.
What is Appdome’s value proposition in digital transformation era? How would you outline the importance of Mobile App Security for CIOs and CISOs across Indian organisations?
India and South Asia are the fastest growing digital economy in the world. Consumers globally are depending on mobile apps to give them greater financial transactional freedom. Appdome’s Global Consumer Expectations on Mobile App Security survey clearly showed that consumers demand more protection in their mobile app experiences.And while brands have invested heavily in automating building and releasing new versions of their apps, mobile app security today is not automated and as a result takes a back seat to new features.
Appdome is the only cyber defense automation platform that connects to the DevOps systems used by app makers and make it fast and easy to build security into mobile apps, directly in their CI/CD Pipeline. Appdome has seen increasing interest from Indian banks, fintech, and other brands building superapps with transaction functionality. The time was right for Appdome to invest into the Indian market and add Surojit to our growing team in Asia.
What would be your main responsibilities with the new role at Appdome ?
I am super excited to join Appdome as we start our South Asia Sales operation . Appdome is uniquely positioned to deliver the industry’s first and patented “no code” cyber defense automation platform. Appdome is the only solution that gives cyber team visibility management and control over the security features in the dev process. As such, Appdome resolves any tension that exist between the dev and cyber teams and allows brands to rapidly release new apps to production that fully protect their customers from cyber threats, fraud and malware. With Appdome, Indian FSBI and other brands that drive the digital economy can completely move away from all the challenges of integrating different security SDKs to code a security layer in their mobile apps.
What will be your key priorities (business /technology) in the new role?
My key priority is to protect the digital economy that is allowing Indians great financial freedom and independency. I look forward to helping all brands in South Asia protect their apps and the people who depend on them. To achieve these goals it is critical that we partner with the Cyber and DevOps channel ecosystem so that we can broaden our reach as wide as possible and make it easy for app makers to rapidly secure their apps, protect their mobile business and give their customers the confidence to securely transact in their mobile apps.
