About

A research lab that got tired of writing reports nobody could act on.

We spent years assessing organisations that had no way to fix what we found — no security hire, no budget for four tools, no time. The report went in a drawer. Building the platform was the only honest response to that.

What we believe

Security is a schedule, not a purchaseNothing protects you because you bought it. It protects you because the patch actually landed, the backup actually restored, the alert actually reached a person. We sell the schedule.

Measured beats assertedA documented recovery time is a guess. A rehearsed one is a fact. Wherever we can replace a claim with a measurement, we do — including about our own products.

Publish, even when it costs usOur disclosure timetable applies to our own code. If we find something in CyberFit, it goes on the research page with everything else.

Controls people route around are not controlsIf a rule makes someone's job impossible, they will find a way past it and you will lose all visibility. We design for the behaviour people actually have.

Founders

Vijay Kumar VeluFounder & MDTwenty years in offensive security at IBM, KPMG and BDO UK, before founding AIOpenSec Labs. CDFP, CEH Master, LPT, ECSA and CHFI certified, and author of five books on penetration testing and cyber defence.

Gopal MekalaCo-Founder & BDRecruitment and training entrepreneur with a track record of building talent engines for high-growth startups. Leads people, operations and business development.

Team

Apoorva NSenior Project ManagerRuns delivery across the platform roadmap, keeping engagements on schedule from kickoff to handover.

Srinivas VBusiness DevelopmentLeads new partnerships and customer growth, connecting the platform with organisations that need it.

Advisory board

Havid LarsOT Security & Strategic Cyber Risk

OT and Cyber Security leader across Carlsberg, B&K Vibro and NNIT. Currently Director of Strategic Cyber Risk Advisory at ITM8.

Dwarika PatroDigital Transformation & Business Strategy

Business and digital transformation leader with executive experience across EY and IBM. Founder and CEO of Aays Analytics.

Sridhar PTechnology & Innovation

Technology leader with experience in enterprise software, cloud platforms and product innovation.

PRESSMedia enquiries

Logos, mark files and founder biographies are available on request, along with the researcher behind any published finding.

INVESTORSHow we are funded

Bootstrapped. AIOpenSec Labs is self-funded — no outside investors, no runway clock dictating the roadmap.

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We hire researchers and engineers who want their work shipped as a product rather than filed as a finding.

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