An independent security advisory firm
We advise the people who answer for security: CISOs, CIOs and CTOs. We hold no reseller agreements and take no commission from any vendor, and the founder leads every engagement.
Built to give one kind of advice
RaieNox.ai exists to give senior technology and security leaders advice that is independent, specific to their estate, and followed through.
That shapes how we work. We stay small enough that the person you meet is the person who does the work. We hold no reseller agreements and take no commission from any vendor, so a recommendation is never someone else's sale. And we stay beyond the strategy, through the programme that delivers it.
Independent
No reseller agreements, no vendor commissions, no preferred vendors.
Senior
The founder scopes, leads and signs every engagement.
Specific
Built from your estate, your risks and your regulators, not a template.
Followed through
From the first decision to the change delivered, with the same team.
Design thinking, applied to security
Security that people work around is not security. We design from the organisation outwards, so the controls fit the way the business runs.
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Understand
How the business works, what it must protect, and who has to live with the controls.
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Frame
The real problem, stated in terms of risk to the business, agreed before anything is designed.
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Design
Options with their trade-offs, tested against the estate and the people who will run them.
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Deliver
The chosen design built, handed over and measured, with the same team throughout.
Led by its founder
Every engagement is scoped, led and signed off by the founder.
Manoj Kumar
Founder, CEO and CTO
Manoj has spent more than 23 years in enterprise security, from running infrastructure and security operations to leading security strategy. He served as deputed CISO of an agricultural trading group headquartered in Geneva, led cyber security consulting at Infosys, and then spent six years as a transformation and principal architect at Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks, shaping zero trust, SASE and AI security programmes with CIOs and CISOs.
He leads every engagement himself, from the first conversation to the final recommendation.
- Experience
- 23+ years in enterprise IT and security, since 2003
- Former roles
- Principal Architect, Palo Alto Networks. Transformation Architect, Zscaler. Principal Consultant, Cyber Security, and deputed CISO, Infosys
- Recognition
- Zscaler President's Club 2021, 2023 and 2024. Solutions Architect of the Year, APJ, 2022
- Credentials
- IIM Kozhikode Certified Design Thinking Professional. ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and Auditor (BSI). CCSK. CEH v12. CCSA. CCNA. ITIL v3
Tell us what you are deciding
A first conversation is with the founder, not a sales team. We reply within one working day.