Overview

Prior to founding Prevoty, Kunal Anand was the Director of Technology at the BBC Worldwide, overseeing engineering and operations across the company’s global Digital Entertainment and Gaming initiatives. Kunal also has several years of experience leading security, data and engineering at Gravity, MySpace and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His work has been featured in Wired Magazine and Fast Company. He continues to develop the patented security technologies that power Prevoty’s core products.

After years of real-world experience keeping hackers at bay, Kunal realized that the only way to deliver true application security was to think radically: applications need to be able to monitor and protect themselves – from within. Attack vectors are changing too rapidly for a reactive approach to work. Building on this idea and his years running security and technology for organizations with massive web presences and application security risk (such as MySpace and the BBC), he built Prevoty’s comprehensive runtime application self-protection (RASP) technology, which helps enterprises trust that their applications in production will alert and automatically block and neutralize top security threats. These tools introduce security features into the applications themselves, instrumenting them to block attacks in real-time with deep visibility and accuracy. Kunal introduced a new type of language-based application security technology that simply requires an admin to drop in a plugin that allows every application to monitor and protect itself without relying on traditional definitions or pattern-matching techniques. With the use of Prevoty’s RASP security, apps are self-protecting and able to detect sophisticated cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery or SQL injection zero-day exploits before they happen.