About Us

Protecting The Hive Together

At Hive Pro, we are a team of dedicated cybersecurity experts with a singular mission: to create a unified platform that brings full visibility to your asset security and empowers proactive defense against evolving cyber threats. Just as a hive is intricately protected by its members, we safeguard your digital ecosystem through Uni5 Xposure, our advanced threat exposure management platform. Our approach ensures that all of your threat exposure is identified, prioritized, and neutralized before they can be exploited, delivering continuous protection and resilience for your organization.

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From Vision to Action

Our vision is to build resilient enterprises by safeguarding and enhancing the integrity of every client’s digital architecture—the ‘hive.’ We aim to empower organizations with proactive security, staying ahead of threats through seamless platform consolidation and continuous threat exposure management.

1 The Name Origin

Hive Pro’s name embodies our philosophy of collective strength and collaboration. Just like a hive, where every bee plays a vital role in sustaining the colony, each expert within Hive Pro is a ‘hive defender’ contributing to a unified, dynamic cybersecurity defense. Our team works together seamlessly, ensuring every threat is addressed, every asset and control fortified, and every client protected with the same efficiency and coordination found in nature’s most resilient systems.

2 Conceptualization

Our journey began with recognizing the issues that the scanner tool sprawl and resulting data chaos cause in reducing the attack surface. Enterprises deserve a simple and unified approach to proactive threat defense.

3 Exposure Assessment

We started by building for exposure assessment, meaning a way to identify and evaluate vulnerabilities, prioritize them by threat impact, and provide remediation options.

4 Adversarial Exposure Validation

We then added cyber validation to confirm the effects of potential threats and assess the ability of security controls to block or mitigate their impact effectively.

5 Continuous Intelligence

The best intelligence serves the best outcome. We enrich our capabilities with HiveForce Labs’ 4 R&D teams tracking threats, actors, vulnerabilities, and attacks.

6 Where We Are Today

Today, we provide Uni5 Xposure, one platform offering comprehensive threat exposure management via exposure assessment and adversarial exposure validation, backed by intelligence curated by HiveForce Labs’ R&D teams.

OUR LEADERSHIP

Trusted Hands, Forward-Thinking Vision

Meet the minds behind HivePro’s innovative approach to cybersecurity. Our leadership team comprises industry leaders with a wealth of experience in building and deploying robust security solutions.

Anand Choudha

Founder & CEO

Sarfaraz Kazi

Co-Founder & CTO

Charlie Booth

Chief Financial Officer

Jeelan Poola

Chief Product Officer

Zaira Pirzada

Vice President | Marketing

Neeti Rodrigues

Senior Vice President | Asia Pacific & Africa

Amit Mishra

Head of Products | SaaS, BAS & Integrations

Purvi Garg

Head of Products | Platform, VPT & Threat Research

Anand Choudha
Founder & CEO

Anand is an all-out entrepreneur having founded companies such as Spectrami, Altrosmart, AmiseQ and Hive Pro. With over a decade of cybersecurity experience, he continues to launch startups addressing current and future challenges. Possessing a natural transformational leadership style, his forte lies in developing businesses to their maximum potential through clarity of vision and determined execution. Anand is a board member and advisor to several security startups and is recognized as a thought-leader and influencer in the security industry.

Sarfaraz Kazi
Co-Founder & CTO

Sarfaraz Kazi is a cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and infrastructure management. He has a proven track record of success in startups and scaling companies, and has experience working in various capacities, from technical consultant to divisional head to leadership roles. Sarfaraz is skilled in strategic planning, execution, team management, and collaborating with leadership and management teams to set and achieve strategic, operational, and tactical objectives. He is certified in a range of technologies and has a strong understanding of technical and presales knowledge in the field of information security.

Charlie Booth
Chief Financial Officer

Charlie Booth brings over 20 years of finance, strategy, corporate development, and board experience to his position as Chief Financial Officer. His career focus is on private equity and venture backed B2B and B2C SaaS, fintech, media, and data businesses. His track record includes execution in growth equity and debt transactions, improved financial performance and productivity, buy and sell-side mergers and acquisitions. Outside of Hive Pro, he is an investor in sponsor backed LBOs and lower-middle market private credit transactions.

Jeelan Poola
Chief Product Officer

Jeelan is a seasoned product leader with over 21+ Years of experience in building highly distributed and horizontally scalable enterprise software products in Database, Security, Networking and SaaS domains. He built, scaled and managed high performance teams that delivered flagship and horizon-next software products at large Enterprises as well as Startups. He held product leadership and ownership positions at Couchbase, Motorola Solutions and Extreme Networks. With a strong technical and engineering background, he is passionate about delivering innovative software with exceptional user experiences and great quality. He is structured, loves consistency and loves building teams and products with first principles in mind. Prior to Hive Pro, Jeelan was with Couchbase for over 5 years and lived through the journey of a VC stage startup till the first successful year post IPO which added immense value to his experience.

Zaira Pirzada
Vice President | Marketing

Zaira Pirzada is the VP,  Marketing at Hive Pro. Prior to joining Hive Pro, she was a Security and Risk Management Analyst with Gartner, Inc. Zaira was also featured on CBS as a main actress in the prime-time television show “Hunted”, on Wired magazine, and various other publications for her technical acumen, poetry, and performance.

Neeti Rodrigues
Senior Vice President | Asia Pacific & Africa

Neeti is a business leader with over twenty years’ experience in General Management, Sales, Marketing and Engineering. She is a seasoned technology veteran with experience in both startups and major public enterprises. Previously she held senior leadership roles at Micro Focus, TippingPoint Technologies (3Com), Hewlett Packard (HP) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). She has a passion for building successful organizations ground up with a focus on creating an exceptional culture which leads to dynamic business growth. Her advice is strive for excellence, stay hungry and learn, and success will automatically follow.

Amit Mishra
Head of Products | SaaS, BAS & Integrations

Amit is an Advisory Consultant transformed into a product leader, keen on converting ideas into go-to-market products and a seasoned cyber security professional having worked in Asia, Middle East and Africa. He led the development of a QR Code based offline resident authentication and KYC solution being used widely in India. Amit has conducted extensive research and developed scalable solutions in digital transformation, data deduplication, cloud computing and web scraping domains. He has a solid background of critical infrastructure security and privacy. Amit managed corporate security for a large telco in the Middle east and earlier, he was associated with PwC Advisory Consulting designing and managing security for the National Identity Program of an African Country and India respectively. He was the second employee to join Hive Pro and played a key role in transforming the idea into the platform.

Purvi Garg
Head of Products | Platform, VPT & Threat Research

Purvi is driven by innovation and loves solving real life problems. She comes with a strong Cyber Security, Privacy and Digital Forensics background. Prior to joining Hive Pro, Purvi was associated with PwC Advisory Consulting; designing, architecting, reviewing and managing cyber security for critical infrastructures such as government, telecommunication, banking, etc. She has designed the security architecture and strategy for the National Identity Program of an African Country from scratch and was also a core member of the team managing the security of the National Identity Program of India. Purvi designed the nationwide framework for digital KYC reverification which is being used by all telcos in India. She is an expert in Biometric Security and Privacy, RFID Security and Social Security and Privacy. Purvi was the first employee to join Hive Pro and is leading the product and engineering initiatives since the ideation stage.

Our Story

Hive Pro was born out of a vision to revolutionize cybersecurity by addressing the complex challenges faced by organizations in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. The story revolves around the convergence of expertise, innovation, and a deep commitment to strengthening cybersecurity.

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Today, Uni5 Xposure hosts native capabilities from 6 enterprise-grade (code-infra-cloud) scanners, advanced BAS, EASM, VPT, to continuously enriched threat, attack, threat actor, patch, IoC, and vulnerability intelligence curated by Hive Force Labs. Additionally, HiveForce Labs offers free and up-to-date daily, weekly and monthly digests and advisories.

By 2023, HivePro evolved Uni5 Xposure into an offering that provides a single-pane view of asset criticality, VPT, BAS, and contextualized threat and vulnerability insights curated by Hive Force Labs and tailored to customer business needs.

In 2022, Hive Pro was introduced to the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework by Gartner, Inc. It was clear this year that they had been building for CTEM all along. Uni5 Xposure symbolized a way to meet the technical continuous threat exposure management program.

In 2021, Hive Pro enhanced Uni5 Xposure with advanced vulnerability prioritization (VPT), breach and attack simulation (BAS), predictive vulnerability analytics and automated remediation, ensuring immediate time to value for customers.

In 2020, Hive Pro began, offering a security assessment and data-driven pentest management platform.

Built for All

Partnering for Innovation

Hive Pro builds for end users and for our Partners. We meet the needs of technology alliance partners, MSPs, global systems integrators, VARs, and distributors with our highly customizable platform and collaborative expertise.

Collaboration Friendly

We collaborate with Technology Alliance Partners to integrate complementary technologies, enhance product offerings, ensure interoperability, and drive mutual growth through combined expertise, innovation, and market reach.

Enhancing Your Business

We collaborate with Managed Service Providers to deliver integrated, scalable security solutions, advanced threat detection, continuous updates, compliance tools, and strong vendor support, driving mutual growth through combined expertise and innovation.

Seamless Product Integration

We collaborate with Global Systems Integrators to provide the scalable Uni5 Xposure platform with seamless interoperability, architectural integration, continuous updates, strong vendor support, and high reliability, driving mutual growth through combined expertise and innovation.

Reselling and Distributing With Confidence

We collaborate with VARs and Distributors to provide our scalable Uni5 Xposure platform alongside continuous updates, strong vendor support, and marketing assistance, ensuring mutual growth.

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Technology Alliances

Collaboration Friendly

We collaborate with Technology Alliance Partners to integrate complementary technologies, enhance product offerings, ensure interoperability, and drive mutual growth through combined expertise, innovation, and market reach.

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Managed Service Providers

Enhancing Your Business

We collaborate with Managed Service Providers to deliver integrated, scalable security solutions, advanced threat detection, continuous updates, compliance tools, and strong vendor support, driving mutual growth through combined expertise and innovation.

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Global Systems Integrators

Seamless Product Integration

We collaborate with Global Systems Integrators to provide the scalable Uni5 Xposure platform with seamless interoperability, architectural integration, continuous updates, strong vendor support, and high reliability, driving mutual growth through combined expertise and innovation.

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VARs and Distribuitors

Reselling and Distributing With Confidence

We collaborate with VARs and Distributors to provide our scalable Uni5 Xposure platform alongside continuous updates, strong vendor support, and marketing assistance, ensuring mutual growth.

Our People Define Us

Hive Pro is always expanding. Join our dynamic team and be part of an innovative company dedicated to making a difference in the world.

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Industry Recognition

Elevated by industry recognition, our solutions have been featured in Gartner’s Market Guide for VA (2023), Hype Cycle for SecOps (2023) (2024), and in Forrester’s research.

Market Guide for VA

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Hype Cycle for SecOps

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Research Contributor

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