Safeguard your virtual life & assets with Yasir & His venture Macksofy

Today we are living in cyber world, cyber means virtual world. This world might be virtual but has more crowd and potential than real world.
If we consider a recent study The biggest increase has been among young adults, with time spent online almost tripling from 10 hours and 24 minutes each week in 2005 to 27 hours and 36 minutes in 2014. In total, the average adult spends more than 20 hours online a week, which includes time spent on the internet at work.
This virtual world has come with lot of positive potential like we discuss business with our clients across the world through our emails, we share messages on messenging platforms, we connect with our clients, friends, colleagues as well as relatives via linkedin and facebook and the best part is doing business has become very easy.
In 2016-2017 there has been a tremendous increase in online payments after demonetisation, there are so many virtual money apps like paytm, payumoney, mobiwik etc but at the same time, this also has given a lot of threat to the world.
Every single day, lot of email accounts, bank accounts get hacked and the money is stolen, lot of accounts on different social media websites gets hacked and privacy of the users are compromised. Even the email accounts are hacked and lot of potential and important data is compromised.
Just the way, we have safe, locks and security guards to protect our valuable assets in real world, we also need to be cautious in the virtual world.
Here we need some specialised task force who are able to manage our security and privacy online as well as help us to track criminals.
Cyber world is quite new and is becoming threatening day by day and getting tough to prevent criminals as most of the crimes are done across the boundary.
Meet Yasir from Macksofy Technologies who since his early stages was quite enthusiastic about helping the world with his skills and sharp mind.
Yasir is the founder of Macksofy Technologies and they train students, corporates in Cyber crimes investigations and ethical hacking. His plan is to make this virtual world more safe for everyone with his team and venture. Lets meet this young fellow and understand his plans.
1.What is the Name of Your Venture?
Macksofy Technologies Pvt Ltd

2.Who is your target Audience?
Corporate IT people, Students, Colleges etc
3.Where is your venture based ( city, state, country) & What are your target areas?
Venture is based in Mumbai,Maharashtra,India target audience between age group of 15 to 35.
4.What problems does your venture solve? What are your products or services.
Cyber crimes investigations and ethical hacking
5.Share the idea or story behind the venture. How did it come to an existence?
With the vision of helping create ‘tomorrow,’ tech entrepreneur Yasir Shaikh founded Macksofy Technologies Pvt Ltd in 2014. A young Mumbai-based techie, Yasir was inspired by renowned Indian tech entrepreneurs- Lucideos founders Saket Modi and Vidit Baxi. Lucideos is a leading Delhi-based company that provides Cyber Security services and training. In that vein, Yasir built Macksofy Technologies Pvt Ltd from an idea to one of Mumbai’s most exciting tech companies in 3 years. The company provides Cyber Security services to numerous startups, small and large-scale companies across India. Well renowned for their expertise in the field, Yasir, and his team have won numerous awards and recognitions from tech giants Google and Intel.
An expert in the Cyber Security field, the young, self-taught entrepreneur quickly realized the need to train young, aspiring tech professionals in the fields of Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking. “Every year thousands of students graduate from IT courses across the country but don’t have any real knowledge or experience in Cyber Security,” says Yasir. “I initially conducted a workshop at my former college L.S. Raheja, and the response from the students was amazing! They loved the program and kept following up with us- asking for more tips and advice. We’ve even employed some of our top students at Macksofy after they’ve completed their courses with us!”
Although Yasir jokes of a few students enrolling for the classes just so that they can hack into their partners’ phones and computers, he believes that there is a huge market for trained, ethical hackers and cyber security specialists not just in India but across the globe. The team believes that Macksofy’s larger vision is to secure digital India in the digital world.
In addition to Cyber Security Solutions and Ethical Hacking Workshops, Macksofy Technologies also provide web services like Website Development, Web Design, E-commerce solutions, and App development. In 2017, it is giants like Infosys and Wipro as well as small companies like Macksofy that are contributing to India being of one of the world’s leading IT forces and the folks at Macksofy Technologies pride themselves on contributing to India’s phenomenal technological growth
6.How did you identify your co-founder? Tell us some thing about your co-founder/s
We both were in same college and in the same field and share similar intrest
Her name is dhwani vakhariya , Graduated from Mumbai University
7. How did you hired your first team members
We hired 1st 3 member from our college as they were in search of opportunity.
8.What expansion plans are you looking for the next 2 years, next 5 years?
We have planed to open training centre accross India Targeting cities like Delhi,banglore, Kolkata
9.Where do you want to see yourself in next 10 years?
One of the major Web and Network security consulting companies of India
10.Have you raised any funding? Or have any plans for the funding?
We havnt tired of raising fund but yes in future we would look to have funding
11.What were the problems you faced during the starting days and how did you resolve them?
In the start major problem was to get clients on board .Plus the other competitors in the market made the things too complicated.
12. What have been your biggest challenges and learning so far?
Biggest challenge was to get1st 5 clients on board and then we learnt to handle clients gaining experience from 5 different clients
13.Are you married, single or in a relationship?
Single
14.What are your hobbies? What do you do in your non-work time?
Play football to keep my body fit.
15.Whats your favorite food & holiday destination?
Nothing as such
16.Whom do you consider your idol or biggest motivator?
Steve Jobs – Apple
Saket Modi – Lucideus tech
Vidit Baxi- lucideus tech
17.What do you feel is the major difference between entrepreneurs and those who work for someone else?
Entrepreneurs think differently.
18.If you had the chance to start your career over again, what would you do differently?
Nothing apart from Security
19.How has being an entrepreneur affected your family & Social life?
Well lots of huddles due to lack of spending time with family and friends.Not Much time for social media until its important.
20.Anything, you would like to say to our readers or upcoming entrepreneurs?
No comments
21.Tell us something about your education & family background.
Well I m Bsc IT Graduate from Mumbai University, With that have done CEHv9, and CCNA
22.What is your USP which makes it unique & different from other start-ups in similar domains.
· Domain: Which allows us to identify the areas of vulnerability and where they are originating.
· Methods of exploitation: Understanding the vectors, tools and mechanisms used to exploit those vulnerabilities
· Outcomes: Which is the resulting impact of the cyber attack.
23. What do you think is the biggest threat to the success of small businesses & Start-ups today?
Lack of proper idea execution. No proper planning about the resource and funds
24. Do you consider yourself successful and by what means do you measure success?
Yes, We consider our self as successful venture.
25.Please share complete name, address, phone number, email id & website of Your Business & Contact Person
Shaikh Yasir Arafat,
308 Bulding no 11, Motilal Nehru Nagar, BKC, Mumbai – 400051
Contact:9619439639
email:[email protected]
website: www.macksofy.com