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Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform

CNAPP that Catches Cloud Threats
Before they Become Crises

Indian fintechs and telecoms move fast. Your cloud security platform should too — not catch up 24 hours later.

Cy5 ion is a cloud-native application protection platform built for this pace – event-driven, India-deployed, and designed to give your CISO and DevSecOps team signals worth acting on, not noise worth ignoring.

No pitch decks. No sales scripts.
Just an honest look at your cloud security posture.

● Critical 0m ago
Toxic IAM Combination
ec2:* + s3:* + public network access
prod-account / ap-south-1
✓ Resolved 7m ago
Firewall Rule Corrected
SG-0xA4 ingress 0.0.0.0/0 → locked
staging / eu-west-2
⚠ Warn 3m ago
S3 Bucket: Password Sheet.xlsx
Public read ACL detected
finance-container / us-east-1
ℹ KSPM 12m ago
Root Container Detected
3 pods running elevated privileges
prod-k8s / payment-svc
✓ Blocked 18m ago
CVE-2024-3094 Patched
xz-utils → not publicly reachable
image: api-gateway:latest
10 min
Average attacker response time after exposure
vs. 1–24 hr scan cycles
97%
Reduction in Mean Time to Detect; Telecom client
Cy5 customer data
96%
Alert noise reduction across enterprise deployments
Cy5 customer data
<24h
Time from contract to first meaningful security signal
All verticals

Your Cloud Has a Misconfiguration Right Now. You Just Don't Know Which One.

Your DevOps team ships faster than your security team can review.

Right now, somewhere in your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment, there’s an S3 bucket with open access, an IAM role with dangerous privileges, or a firewall rule that missed Q3 review.

Your current tool doesn’t know yet either.

AWS
Azure
GCP
S3
⚠ PUBLIC
IAM
⚠ ROOT
K8s
GCE
Last scanned: 18h 00m ago
// THE EXPOSURE WINDOW
▲ YOUR RISK LIVES HERE ▲
EXPOSURE
OCCURS
ATTACKER
INSIDE · 10 MIN
YOUR SCAN
UP TO 24H

That gap — ~23 hours and 50 minutes — is your actual risk surface.

$ grep --pattern="team-reality" /logs/security-feedback.txt
"Five tools. None of them talk to each other."07:42
"3 hours a day triaging false positives."09:15
"Pen tester found the misconfigured bucket. Not us."11:03
"4,000 CVEs. Zero idea which ones matter in prod."14:27

Attackers exploit a new cloud exposure within 10 minutes. Your scan cycle: up to 24 hours. Every breach lives in that gap. Source: Cy5 research · Gartner 2024

// SIGNAL OVER NOISE

Your Security Team Doesn't Have a Tool Problem. It Has a Signal Problem.

The industry sold you categories. CSPM for posture. CWPP for workloads. CASB for access. KSPM for Kubernetes. Each tool is technically correct. Together, they create something worse than a gap, they create the illusion of coverage.


Full dashboards are not the same as actionable intelligence. The CISO reviewing 3,000 daily alerts isn’t more secure. She’s just more tired.

ALERTS TODAY · REFRESHING EVERY 30S
HIGH S3 bucket policy — public read access detected
HIGH IAM role with * action on production account
MED Unencrypted EBS volume in eu-west-1
MED Container running as root — staging cluster
LOW MFA not enforced — 3 IAM users
LOW Security group allows 0.0.0.0/0 on port 22
...and 2,994 more
// THE ACTUAL PROBLEM

A misconfigured compute instance is a medium severity finding in isolation.
The same instance — combined with permissive firewall rules and full IAM access — is a critical breach path.

No CSPM catches that. No CWPP catches that.
Only a platform that correlates across identity, network, workload, and posture simultaneously can surface it.

// OLD WAY // CY5 ION
Scans every 1–24 hours Event-driven — detects the moment a change happens
3,000+ alerts/day, mostly noise Refined contextual signals — only what matters
Separate CSPM, CWPP, SIEM, KSPM tools One platform: posture, workload, identity, threat detection
Manual alert triage by security team Automated correlation — only toxic combinations surface
Detection after attacker has moved Detection as the window opens — often within minutes

“A tool that tells you everything is a risk, tells you nothing. The only signal that matters is the one your attacker is already following.”

// CY5 ION — PLATFORM OVERVIEW

ion Isn't Another Security Tool. It's Your Cloud's Immune System.

Most platforms were built to scan and report. Ion was built for environments that change constantly — and adversaries who’ve automated their attack chains.

When something changes in your cloud; a new IAM role, a modified security group, a deployed container – ion picks it up instantly, correlates it, and surfaces a refined signal.
No polling. No 2-hour lag. No attacker already inside.

ION LIVE EVENT FEED 00:00:00
09:41:03IAMNew role created — AdministratorAccess policy attached
09:41:07NETSecurity group modified — port 22 open to 0.0.0.0/0
09:41:09CTRContainer deployed — running as root, no seccomp profile
09:41:11STRS3 bucket ACL changed — public-read enabled
09:41:14IAMCorrelation complete — toxic combination confirmed ⚠
▲ ATTACK PATH SURFACED · 11 SECONDS AFTER FIRST CHANGE
01 /
CSPM
Cloud Security Posture Management
Continuous misconfiguration monitoring across AWS, Azure, and GCP — ranked by real environmental context, not generic severity scores.
02 /
CWPP
Cloud Workload Protection
Scans containers and workloads against live CVE data — then filters to only the 5% that are publicly reachable and exploitable in your environment.
03 /
KSPM
Kubernetes Security Posture
Read-only K8s integration surfaces root containers, permissive RBAC, insecure API configs, and CoreDNS exposure — before your pen tester does.
04 /
SIEM
Threat Detection + Integrated SIEM
Cloud-native SIEM ingests logs from cloud, on-prem, and third-party sources. Detects lateral movement, unusual activity, and malicious comms — SOAR-ready.
05 /
CORRELATION
Contextual Correlation Engine
Maps relationships across identity, network, workload, and data to surface toxic combinations — a confirmed attack path, not three separate medium findings.
06 /
DATA LAKE
Security Data Lake
Serverless, SQL-friendly history of your full environment. Run threat hunting, compliance forensics, and ML workloads via Athena, EMR, or Zeppelin — zero infra.

// INDIA-FIRST · LIVE DEPLOYMENTS

How Leading Fintech & Digitally-Native Comapnies are Using Ion Right Now

FINTECH · MUMBAI NBFC
Manual Alert Triage Consuming the Entire Security Team
// PAIN
1,800+ daily alerts. Three analysts spending 60% of their time on false positives. Zero capacity for proactive threat hunting. RBI compliance reports built manually in spreadsheets.
// WHAT THEY DID
Deployed ion's event-driven architecture across AWS. Replaced legacy SIEM with cloud-native security data lake. Compliance reports automated end-to-end.
85% ALERT NOISE DROP
<2h COMPLIANCE REPORTS
<24h CONTRACT TO SIGNAL
TELECOM · TIER-1 INDIAN TELCO
Thousands of CVEs. No Way to Know Which Ones Actually Matter.
// PAIN
No container vulnerability visibility in production. CVE backlog in the thousands. Engineers asked to fix everything — which meant fixing nothing.
// WHAT THEY DID
Deployed CWPP and KSPM modules. CVE library filtered through compute and network context — reduced actionable list to the critical 5% publicly reachable.
97% MTTD REDUCTION
3mo OPS EFFORT SAVED/YR
SAAS · SERIES B STARTUP · BENGALURU
Critical Misconfigurations Found by a Pen Tester; One Week Before Due Diligence.
// PAIN
No dedicated security team. Multi-cloud across AWS and GCP with zero posture visibility. Three critical misconfigs live for months — discovered a week before Series B investor review.
// WHAT THEY DID
Ion deployed as primary cloud security platform. Single-pane multi-cloud visibility. KSPM for Kubernetes-heavy architecture. Immediate triage.
0 FINDINGS IN DD CALL
1 PLATFORM, NO HIRE
EDTECH · HYDERABAD
Identity Sprawl Nobody Could See; Until the Audit Was Two Weeks Away.
// PAIN
Rapid post-funding scale created identity chaos. Unused IAM roles, unrotated access keys, users with full S3 and EC2 permissions — none of it visible in one place.
// WHAT THEY DID
Ion's identity risk module mapped actual vs granted permissions across all users and programmatic roles. Surfaced high-privilege, no-MFA, never-used accounts instantly.
96% NOISE REDUCTION
Pre-audit ALL MISCONFIGS FOUND

// OPERATIONAL IMPACT

What Actually Changes When Your Security Platform Keeps Up

01
ANALYST PRODUCTIVITY
Your security team stops being an alert factory.
Ion filters your environment to refined, contextual signals. Analysts spend time on threats that matter — not closing 2,800 false positives before the daily standup.
02
COMPLIANCE · RBI · SEBI
Your CISO walks into every board meeting prepared.
Automated compliance reports — mapped to frameworks your regulators recognize. Audit-ready documentation without a week of manual effort every quarter.
03
DEVSECOPS · CVE PRIORITIZATION
Your engineers fix the right vulnerabilities — in the right order.
4,000 CVEs filtered to the 200 that are publicly reachable and remotely exploitable. Engineers patch what matters. Stop being paralyzed by what doesn't.
04
ATTACK PATH DETECTION
You see toxic risk combinations before an attacker does.
Public compute + permissive firewall + full IAM access = one critical attack path, not three medium findings. Full chain visible. Before anyone exploits it.
05
MULTI-CLOUD · AWS · AZURE · GCP
One platform covers everything. No integration blame-shifting.
No separate CSPM per cloud. No tool gaps. One platform, one data lake, one alert queue — across your entire multi-cloud environment.
06
EVENT-DRIVEN DETECTION
You eliminate the 18-hour blind spot.
Ion reacts when your environment changes — not when the scan cycle runs. Attackers move in 10 minutes. Now you do too.
07
SCALABILITY
Your security scales as your cloud footprint grows.
New K8s clusters, new regions, acquired environments — ion scales without re-architecting your security stack. Your data lake grows with you.
08
BOARD-LEVEL ROI
You prove ROI in concrete numbers — not vague posture language.
MTTD reduced 97%. Alert noise down 85–96%. Compliance cycles: days → hours. Numbers your board understands without a security glossary.
97%
MTTD reduction
Tier-1 Telco deployment
96%
Alert noise reduction
EdTech, Hyderabad
<2h
Compliance reports
Was 4 days · Mumbai NBFC
<24h
Contract to first signal
All verticals

// TRUST ARCHITECTURE · INDIA-FIRST

Trusted by Indian Enterprises That Cannot Afford to Get Cloud Security Wrong

FINTECH · NCR
// PROBLEM
Misconfigurations going undetected for weeks. No real-time infra visibility. RBI compliance reporting done manually — error-prone, time-consuming.
// INTERVENTION
Ion deployed across AWS. Event-driven posture monitoring enabled. Compliance reports fully automated.
// RESULT
Zero security findings in the subsequent RBI IT audit cycle.
<2h
COMPLIANCE REPORTS
0
AUDIT FINDINGS
Real-time
VS WEEKLY REVIEWS
TELECOM · TIER-1
// PROBLEM
Thousands of CVEs across containerized workloads. No prioritization framework. Operational overhead unsustainable for the DevSecOps team.
// INTERVENTION
Ion CWPP + integrated SIEM deployed. CVE list filtered by network reachability and compute context, actionable list reduced by 95%.
// RESULT
Engineers now fix the right things, in the right order.
97%
MTTD REDUCTION
3mo
OPS EFFORT SAVED/YR
95%
CVE LIST REDUCED
"Ion enabled us to set up secure application infrastructure without heavy lifting. Real-time misconfiguration alerts help us maintain the sanctity of our infrastructure."
ANIRUDH BHARDWAJ · CTO · RECURCLUB · NCR FINTECH
"Cy5 has transformed the way we look at cloud monitoring. An awesome made-in-India product built for global requirements."
CISO · LEADING INDIAN NBFC
// WHY INDIAN TEAMS TRUST CY5
4 years operating in the Indian cloud security market
100% customer retention — every client still runs on ion
100% YoY revenue growth — three consecutive years
Customers across Fintech, Telecom, EdTech, Energy — India, UK, Germany, UAE, and beyond
India-based support that understands your regulatory environment and procurement process
Built for Indian engineering constraints — not retrofitted from a US enterprise product
Founded by Vikram Mehta — former CISO at MakeMyTrip Group (2012–2021), IBM security consultant, three-time DSCI Excellence Award winner.
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// FIT ASSESSMENT

Is Ion Built for Your Situation?

// BUILT FOR YOU IF
You're a CISO, CTO, or DevSecOps lead at an Indian fintech, NBFC, telecom, or cloud-first company — and your cloud grows faster than your team can monitor it.
You run workloads on AWS, Azure, or GCP and know your posture is checked on a schedule — not in real time.
Your security stack generates more noise than signal — and your analysts are triaging instead of threat hunting.
You're preparing for an RBI, SEBI, or enterprise security review — and your compliance documentation isn't ready.
You're a Series A–C founder or CTO who can't afford a five-person security team — but can't afford a breach either.
// NOT FOR YOU IF
Your workloads are entirely on-premise with no public cloud plans in the next 12 months. Ion is built for cloud-native and hybrid environments.
You want a managed security service that operates without your team's involvement. Ion empowers your team — it doesn't replace it.
You need a 6-month evaluation cycle before any commitment. Our fastest deployments deliver first signal in under 24 hours. If you need a multi-quarter procurement process, we're probably not the right pace for each other.

// IMPLEMENTATION · ZERO FRICTION

From First Conversation to Full Cloud Visibility

DAY 0
Discovery Call
20 minutes. We understand your cloud providers, workloads, accounts, and most pressing security concern right now. No slide decks.
DAY 1
Environment Diagnostic
Ion connects via read-only access. Within hours: first posture snapshot, misconfigurations surfaced, identity risks mapped, CVE prioritization running.
WEEK 1
Signal Calibration
Your team reviews findings with our engineers. Alert thresholds configured, correlation rules tuned — signals matched to your actual risk profile, not a generic template.
WEEK 2–4
Full Deployment
SIEM integration, compliance mapping (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, or your specific framework), KSPM activated. Your team trained and running independently.
ONGOING
Continuous Iteration
Monthly posture reviews. New detection rules as threats evolve. Direct access to Cy5 security engineers. You are never on your own after go-live.
▲ FIRST MEANINGFUL SIGNAL: UNDER 24 HOURS

// ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Pricing That Respects How Indian Enterprises Actually Buy

We don’t do 12-month contracts before you’ve seen a single alert. Indian security buyers evaluate carefully, justify to boards, and expect fast impact. Our model is built for that.
Start with a diagnostic deployment. See the platform working against your actual risks — before committing to anything long-term.

Can we start with a pilot?
Yes — that's the default starting point. No commitment before you've seen ion work in your actual environment.
What's the implementation timeline?
First signal under 24 hours. Full deployment in 2–4 weeks. No quarters-long onboarding cycles.
Do you lock us in?
No long-term lock-in before you've seen ROI. Your data stays in your cloud account — not ours.
Is there local support?
India-based team aligned to Indian business hours, regulatory context, and procurement realities.

// ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Questions Indian CISOs and DevSecOps Leads Ask Before Deciding

CNAPP · CSPM · CWPP

A CNAPP unifies CSPM, CWPP, KSPM, and threat detection into one platform. The key difference is context — a standalone CSPM tells you a misconfiguration exists. A CNAPP tells you whether that misconfiguration, combined with your network posture and IAM configuration, creates an actual exploitable attack path. CSPM and CWPP produce findings. CNAPP produces decisions.
COMPETITIVE · INDIA-FIRST

Ion was built for Indian and APAC enterprises — not retrofitted from a US product with an India price tag. It's event-driven, not schedule-based, so it detects changes in real time. Pricing is pilot-first, outcome-based. And the team understands RBI, SEBI, and TRAI without you needing to explain them.
SIEM · DETECTION

A SIEM aggregates logs and fires rule-based alerts. It has no understanding of your cloud architecture, IAM posture, or workload config. Ion ingests cloud-native telemetry and correlates across all dimensions — surfacing 30 alerts your CISO should act on, not 3,000 your analysts drown in. Ion also includes an integrated SIEM engine, so you don't run both in parallel.
DEPLOYMENT · AGENTLESS

Ion connects via read-only API access — no agent installation across your fleet. First posture snapshot within hours. Full deployment including SIEM, KSPM, compliance mapping, and team training: 2–4 weeks. For fintech and NBFCs with sensitive environments, agentless means zero disruption to production.
COMPLIANCE · RBI · SEBI · CERT-IN

Yes. Ion generates automated reports mapped to CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2. Our team has direct experience with RBI IT Risk Framework, SEBI cybersecurity circulars, and CERT-In obligations. Reports that took 4 days manually are generated in under 2 hours.
AWS · AZURE · GCP · HYBRID

AWS, Azure, and GCP natively — including hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployments from one unified console and one security data lake. Log ingestion also covers third-party tools: Nginx, Cisco, Apache, and Microsoft stack products.
CVE PRIORITIZATION · DEVSECOPS

Ion layers CVE severity with operational context: Is this package running in a live container? Is that container internet-reachable? Does it sit behind permissive security groups? This filters a backlog of thousands down to the critical 5% that represent real, exploitable risk in your production environment.
EVENT-DRIVEN · REAL-TIME

Ion listens to real-time event streams — CloudTrail (AWS), Activity Log (Azure), Cloud Audit Logs (GCP) — and triggers analysis the moment a change occurs. New IAM role at 11pm with permissive policies: alert within minutes. Schedule-based tools: alert 6–24 hours later. Given attackers move within 10 minutes of discovery, this isn't a nice-to-have. It's the baseline.
STARTUPS · ENTERPRISE

Ion is used by Series A startups and Tier-1 telecoms. For startups: you can't afford a five-person security team — but you can't afford the breach either. Ion gives a two-person engineering team enterprise-grade visibility at a price point and implementation overhead built for startup reality.
KSPM · KUBERNETES

KSPM integrates via read-only K8s Cluster Admin API. Surfaces: root-privilege containers, insecure API ports, permissive RBAC with delete access, missing network policies, CoreDNS exposure. All findings enriched with cloud context — which workloads, which accounts, which exposure level — before reaching your console.
COMPETITIVE DIFFERENTIATION

Three things: speed to value, pricing philosophy, regulatory fluency. Global vendors were built for US enterprise cycles — 6-month evaluations, 7-figure contracts. Cy5 was built for India: 24-hour onboarding, India-based support, Indian regulatory compliance built-in. And the architecture is genuinely event-driven — not a legacy scanner marketed as faster.
BUYING GUIDE · FINTECH · 2026

Prioritise: event-driven detection speed, built-in RBI/CERT-In compliance automation, contextual CVE prioritisation, unified CSPM+CWPP, India-based support and data residency, pilot-first engagement. Cy5 ion meets all six — with live deployments across Indian fintech and NBFC customers in NCR, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

// ONE HONEST CONVERSATION

Let's Look at Your Actual Cloud Security Posture — Together

If you’ve read this far, you’re not shopping for another vendor. You’re looking for a team that speaks your language; RBI compliance, CVE triage, or a board-level risk conversation – and can show you something real within 24 hours.

Not a slide deck. Not a generic demo. A diagnostic look at your actual environment, a clear picture of your real risks, and an honest assessment of what ion can – and can’t – do for your situation.

If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you. That’s how we’ve maintained 100% customer retention for four years.

// WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
01
You book a call. We respond within 4 business hours.
02
20-minute diagnostic. Three questions about your environment. You leave with at least one actionable insight — regardless of whether you become a customer.
03
If we're the right fit — first signal in your environment within 24 hours.

The one thing we can’t do is recover time already lost. Every day your tool runs on a schedule, the detection window stays open.

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Event-driven protection. Zero blind spots. Infinite scale.