Industrial Automation Magazine India

SecureClaw's BDSLCCI is on a mission to cyber secure MSMEs worldwide, helping to build a cost-effective, less time-consuming, and good cybersecurity posture.

Delaware, USA, February 2024 – On February 10, 2024, Dr Shekhar Ashok Pawar, CEO, SecureClaw, received the Award for “Excellence in Innovation in Cybersecurity” from the Asian-African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AACCI) as an inventor of the Business Domain Specific Least Cybersecurity Controls Implementation (BDSLCCI) Framework, which is helping micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) worldwide.

Not only was the BDSLCCI framework invented by him, but also, with his team’s continuous efforts, they have been successful in building an AI-ML-based web platform, www.BDSLCCI.com, which is making the process of deploying the BDSLCCI framework to many MSMEs worldwide easier.

Dr Shekhar Ashok Pawar is one of those who moved from settled corporate job life into boot-strapped entrepreneurship, where he and his core team build companies from scratch. Since January 2016, Dr Pawar’s first venture, GrassDew IT Solutions Pvt Ltd, has provided cybersecurity services and software development solutions to hundreds of multiple domain businesses worldwide. Apart from that, since 2020, GrassDew has also worked as the PAN India sales channel partner and certified solution partner of Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS), providing various products such as internet leased lines, cloud telephony, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and much more.

There are about 400 million small and medium enterprises worldwide, which is approximately 90% of businesses. They are at the bottom of the pyramid, and because of these companies, 60 to 70% of employment opportunities are generated worldwide. Also, these organisations contribute about 55% of GDP to developed economies. On the other hand, it is also true that around 43% of cyberattacks target small businesses, and one out of every two small and medium businesses has a chance of a cyber breach. Looking at the contribution of these segments of companies, if they do not get cyber security protection for themselves, it is going to hamper the global economy as well.

SecureClaw Incorporation is the second venture of Dr Pawar, which is on the mission of cyber securing small and medium companies worldwide, which are known as MSMEs, small and medium businesses (SMBs), or even small and medium enterprises (SMEs), depending on their size, revenue, and location. For this article, let us consider the word SMB, which represents any of these kinds of companies. With his decades of international experience and research studies during his doctorate from the Swiss School of Business and Management in Geneva, Switzerland, Dr Pawar has invented a new cybersecurity framework popularly known as Business Domain Specific Least Cybersecurity Controls Implementation (BDSLCCI), which is more focused on these kinds of organisations.

SecureClaw has been deployed in many SMBs/ SMEs/ MSMEs and has received good market feedback.