Chinmay InfoSec
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// Cybersecurity Consultancy — New Delhi, India

The gap between what you think is secure
and what actually is
that's where attacks happen.

Chinmay InfoSec is a cybersecurity consultancy built for Indian startups and SMEs who need to know exactly where they stand — before an attacker does. We don't sell compliance theatre. We find real gaps and help you close them.

Attackers don't wait for you to feel ready.

43%

Of all cyberattacks target small businesses. Most have no idea until it's already too late.

// Verizon DBIR 2024
₹35L

Average cost of a data breach for an Indian SME — before reputational damage, regulatory exposure, or customer loss enters the picture.

// IBM Cost of Data Breach Report
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One compromised employee account. That is all it takes to lose everything you have built.

// The threat is already inside.

Security as a journey, not a checkbox.

Most businesses treat security as a one-time event — a scan, a report, a checkbox for an investor or a client. That's not how attackers think, and it's not how we work. Every service we offer is built around one question: how would a motivated adversary get in? We answer that question. Then we help you make the answer harder to use against you.

// Tier 0 — Free

Attack Surface Snapshot

We look at your company the way an attacker would — from the outside, using only public information.

Start Here
// Tier 1

Adversarial Business Audit

Two to four weeks. We try to break into your business — systems, people, and vendors — and show you exactly what we found.

Core Engagement
// Tier 2

Fractional CISO

A dedicated security expert who knows your business, shows up when it matters, and helps you make the right decisions as you scale.

Ongoing Advisory
// Tier 3

Red Team Readiness

Three to six months. We find your weaknesses, help you fix them, train your team, and build security that keeps working after we leave.

Transformation
// FTI — Standalone

Founder Threat Intelligence

If you've built something valuable, someone has already looked you up. We audit your personal exposure and lock it down before it becomes a problem.

Personal Security

We don't sell you a feeling of security.

We show you the evidence. The real exposure. The actual gaps — in plain language, ranked by what matters, with a path to fixing it. No jargon. No theoretical frameworks. No 200-page reports that nobody reads.

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We speak founder, not firewall.

Every report, every debrief, every conversation is designed for decision-makers — not IT departments. You will understand exactly what's at risk and exactly what to do about it, without needing a technical translator in the room.

02

We train like attackers, so we think like them.

Our methodology is built on real offensive security — CEH Master certified, eJPT certified, OSCP in progress. We use the same techniques, tools, and mindset as the threat actors targeting your business. Because understanding how attackers think is the only way to stay ahead of them.

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We stay until the risk is actually reduced.

We are not a vendor who delivers a PDF and disappears. We stay through remediation, re-testing, and escalation. The only metric that matters to us is whether your security posture has genuinely improved.

Chinmay Arora — Founder of Chinmay InfoSec
Chinmay Arora
CEH Master eJPT OSCP — In Progress BCA — Cybersecurity

I built Chinmay InfoSec because the Indian startup ecosystem deserves better than generic compliance audits and off-the-shelf security products. Founders work too hard and risk too much to have their businesses compromised by gaps that were entirely preventable. My approach is offensive by training and honest by design — I find what's broken, explain it in plain language, and stay until it's fixed.

I started this firm because I believe every business deserves to know exactly where they stand — and exactly what to do about it.

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Chinmay Advisory Group

Chinmay InfoSec is the cybersecurity practice within the Chinmay Advisory Group — a broader advisory firm spanning security, strategy, and business intelligence. Visit the parent company to learn more about the full scope of the group's work.

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Not sure where to start? Start for free.

The Attack Surface Snapshot costs nothing. It takes a company name and a conversation. At the end of it, you'll know what a motivated adversary can find out about your business in thirty minutes. That knowledge alone changes how you think about risk.

Every engagement starts with one question.

What does a motivated adversary see when they look at your business?

We work through five distinct engagements — each one built around a different answer to that question. Whether you're starting from zero or building a security operation that lasts, this is how we work.

// Tier 0

Attack Surface Snapshot

What can a motivated stranger find out about your business from the open internet in one sitting?

Complimentary

We look at your company from the outside — exactly the way a hacker, a competitor, or a scammer would. We use only publicly available information. We never touch your systems. We never run a scan. We're answering one question: what can someone who wants to hurt your business find out about it before they even try? Most founders are surprised by the answer.

// Who This Is For

Any Indian startup or SME that has never looked at itself through an attacker's eyes. If you've never had an external security review — or simply don't know what your exposure looks like from the outside — this is the right place to begin. No technical knowledge required. No cost. No commitment.

// What You Receive
  • A passive reconnaissance report of your external-facing digital footprint
  • Identification of publicly exposed assets, forgotten subdomains, and open services
  • Employee credential check across known breach and leak databases
  • A clear picture of what the most obvious entry point into your business currently looks like
  • Plain-English summary with prioritised initial observations
  • A 20-minute debrief call to walk through everything found
// Tier 1

Adversarial Business Audit

Two to four weeks. We try to break into your business. Then we tell you exactly what we found — and what to do about it.

Core Engagement

This is not a vulnerability scan. It's not a compliance checklist. We spend two to four weeks attempting to compromise your business the way a real attacker would — not just your website, but your people, your internal tools, your vendors, and every gap between them. At the end, you don't receive a report nobody reads. You receive an Adversarial Dossier: a precise, ranked picture of how your business could be compromised and what to do about it, in order of actual risk.

// Who This Is For

Startups handling customer data, financial transactions, or sensitive information. Companies preparing for funding rounds, enterprise sales, or compliance requirements that demand security evidence. Any business that has never had a professional offensive assessment — and wants to know the truth before someone else finds it.

// What You Receive — The Adversarial Dossier
Executive Summary
What was found, what it means for the business, and the three things that need to happen first. Written for founders and leadership, not IT teams.
Data Exposure Register
Every piece of sensitive business information, credential, or intelligence identified through external reconnaissance — the data that already exists about your company in places you haven't checked.
Technical Findings
A full breakdown of every vulnerability identified across your systems and applications. Each finding is explained in plain language alongside the technical detail, with a severity rating and specific remediation guidance.
The Human Layer
How your people can be manipulated, deceived, or socially engineered. Where the risk lives in your team and your communication patterns — not just your technology.
Supply Chain Risk
The vendors, tools, and third-party integrations that could be used as a backdoor into your business. The risks you're inheriting from the companies you trust.
Remediation Roadmap
A phased, prioritised action plan ranked by actual risk — not theoretical severity scores. What to fix immediately. What can wait. What it costs to ignore.
  • Full debrief session for leadership and technical team
  • Post-remediation retest to verify critical fixes held
// Tier 2

Fractional CISO

A dedicated security expert who knows your business, shows up when it matters, and costs a fraction of hiring in-house.

Ongoing Engagement

You get a senior security expert who actually understands your company — not a vendor cycling through accounts. They attend your monthly reviews. They're available when something goes wrong. They push back on decisions that create risk. They help you make the right security calls as you grow. All the strategic value of a full-time CISO without the full-time cost.

Most growing companies reach a point where one-off assessments are no longer enough — but hiring a full-time CISO isn't justifiable yet. That gap is exactly where businesses get compromised. The Fractional CISO closes that gap permanently.
// Who This Is For

Scaling startups and SMEs building fast and wanting security woven into operations — not bolted on at the end. Companies without a dedicated in-house security function. Founders who are currently making security decisions alone and know that isn't sustainable.

// What You Receive
  • A dedicated security expert assigned to your account — consistent, not rotated
  • Monthly security review attendance and strategic advisory
  • Security input on new features, integrations, and infrastructure changes before they go live
  • Incident response guidance when something goes wrong
  • Ongoing risk register maintenance and prioritisation
  • Vendor and third-party security evaluation
  • Security awareness guidance for your team
  • Direct access via a dedicated communication channel — not a ticketing system
// Tier 3

Red Team Readiness Program

Three to six months. We don't just find your weaknesses — we help you fix them, train your team, and build security that keeps working after we leave.

Transformation Engagement

Most security engagements end with a report. This one ends with a company that is genuinely harder to attack than it was when we started. Over three to six months, we identify your weaknesses, close them alongside your team, train your people to think like attackers, and build internal processes that don't require us to stay in the room. The goal is not a deliverable. The goal is a measurable change in your security posture.

// Who This Is For

Companies that have already had assessments, know their gaps, and now want to close them systematically and permanently. Organisations preparing for a high-stakes environment — enterprise customers, regulated industries, significant fundraising, or expansion into new markets. Leadership teams who understand that reactive security is a liability they can no longer afford.

// What the Program Covers
  • Full adversarial assessment across systems, people, and supply chain as the program foundation
  • Structured remediation support — we work alongside your team to fix what we find, not just report it
  • Red team exercises to test your detection and response capability under realistic attack conditions
  • Attacker mindset training for your technical team — how to think about what you build the way an adversary would
  • Security process design: policies, playbooks, and escalation paths your team can actually follow
  • Tabletop exercises for leadership — how your organisation responds when something goes wrong
  • Program close-out assessment to verify posture improvement is real and measurable
  • Full handover documentation so the security operation continues independently after engagement ends
// FTI — Standalone

Founder Threat Intelligence

If you've built something valuable, someone has already looked you up. The question is what they found.

Personal Security

Competitors. Disgruntled employees. Scammers. State actors. Journalists. They can find out more about you personally than you realise — and that information can be used against you, your family, and your company. We audit your personal digital exposure completely, identify every surface that can be exploited, and lock it down before someone else does it first.

// The Threat Most Founders Overlook

The most effective attack on a company often doesn't begin with a system. It begins with a person. Your home address on a company filing. Your personal email in a breach database. Your daily patterns inferred from public social media. A spear phishing email crafted from everything a stranger found about you in forty minutes of open-source research. You are the highest-value target in your organisation — and most founders have zero protection at the personal level.

// Who This Is For

Founders, co-founders, and C-suite executives at Indian startups who handle critical decisions, investor communications, or sensitive financial operations. Anyone whose personal compromise could cascade directly into a business crisis.

// What You Receive
  • Complete personal digital footprint assessment — everything a motivated adversary can find through open-source research
  • Exposed credential and personal data check across breach and dark web databases
  • Personal device and account security hardening review
  • Social engineering susceptibility assessment — how you could be manipulated and through which vectors
  • SIM swap and account takeover risk evaluation and mitigation guidance
  • Data broker removal guidance — getting your personal information off platforms that aggregate and sell it
  • Tailored personal security protocol for daily operations
  • Ongoing exposure monitoring with alerts when new data about you surfaces

Not sure which is right for you? Start with the free snapshot.

Every engagement begins with the same foundation: understanding your current exposure. The Snapshot costs nothing. The conversation costs nothing. Clarity is priceless.

Built to tell founders the truth about their security.

Chinmay InfoSec was founded on a simple observation: the Indian startup ecosystem is full of businesses that know security matters — and almost none of them know exactly where they're exposed. Generic audits, compliance checklists, and vendor-sold tools create a feeling of security without the substance. We exist to close that gap.

Chinmay Arora — Founder of Chinmay InfoSec
Chinmay Arora
CEH Master eJPT OSCP — In Progress BCA — Cybersecurity

I started Chinmay InfoSec because I believe every business deserves to know exactly where it stands — and exactly what to do about it. Not a sanitised summary. Not a score on a dashboard. The real picture, explained in plain language, with a path forward that makes sense.

My background is in offensive security — understanding how attackers think, what they look for, and how they move through a target environment. That lens changes how you look at every system, every process, and every person in an organisation. It's not a theoretical framework. It's the actual mindset of the people trying to get in — and the only way to stay ahead of them is to understand it completely.

I founded this firm because the startups I spoke to kept saying the same thing: they had done a security audit, they had ticked a box, and they still had no idea whether they were actually safe. That's the problem I'm here to solve.

"Every business deserves to know exactly where it stands. That's why Chinmay InfoSec exists."

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Offensive by training. Honest by design.

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We think like adversaries.

Every assessment, every review, every conversation starts from the attacker's perspective. Not 'what controls do you have?' but 'how would someone get around those controls?' That shift in framing reveals a completely different set of risks.

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We translate, not just report.

A finding that a founder can't understand is a finding that won't get fixed. Every piece of output we produce — from a Snapshot summary to a full Adversarial Dossier — is written to be understood and acted on by the person who runs the business, not just the person who manages the servers.

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We stay until it's actually better.

Our engagement doesn't end when the report is delivered. We re-test. We track remediation. We stay involved until the risk is genuinely reduced — not just documented.

A cybersecurity practice within a broader advisory firm.

Chinmay InfoSec is the dedicated cybersecurity practice within the Chinmay Advisory Group — an advisory firm working across security, strategy, and business intelligence. The Group operates on the belief that good advice is honest, specific, and built around the actual situation of the client — not a templated product sold at scale.

If you want to understand the full scope of what the Chinmay Advisory Group does, or explore how cybersecurity fits into a wider strategic engagement, we'd direct you to the parent firm.

Chinmay InfoSec operates as a focused vertical within the Group. The parent company is the home for clients whose needs extend beyond cybersecurity into broader business advisory.

Let's find out where you actually stand.

No sales pitch. No pressure. A direct conversation about your exposure and what it would take to address it. Reach out through any channel below — or fill in the form and we'll respond within 24 hours.

Direct Contact

Every channel below goes directly to Chinmay. No gatekeeping, no intake teams, no automated workflows.

Email security@chinmayinfosec.com
Phone +91 9811888013
WhatsApp +91 9811888013
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