Lucideus

Lucideus

Type	Private
Industry	Cyber Security
Founded	New Delhi, India (2012)
Founder	Saket Modi
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Saket Modi (CEO) Sachin Shridhar (Chairman) Vidit Baxi (Director) [1]
Services	Digital Security Advisory & Services
Website	Lucideus.com

Lucideus is an Indian company which provides Digital Security^[2] Consulting & Operational^[3] Services to Businesses, Governments^[4] and Institutions across the globe.^[5][6][7] Incubated out of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Lucideus is now headquartered in New Delhi and continues to have its research and innovation lab located at the computer science department of IIT Bombay.^[8][9][10]

History

In 2012, Saket Modi^{[11][12][13][14][15]} a Computer Science engineer, founded Lucideus.^{[16][17][18][19]} Saket along with his co-founder Vidit Baxi gathered together a team of security professionals and started the company with the objective of providing cyber security trainings.^{[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]} In the beginning of 2013, Lucideus launched its range of Enterprise Cyber Security Services^[28][29][30] and the company today works actively in both the areas.^{[31][32][33][34][35][36]}

Products or Apps

UnHack

UnHack^[37] was an app developed at the research labs of Lucideus at IIT Bombay. It reverse engineers the permission base that applications take on a smart phone and displays it in a simple to use GUI to the user. In other words, it shows a user which of their apps installed in the phone can access their SMS/Call Logs/Camera/SD Card/Location among others. It also goes ahead and classifies apps into three categories - Safe, Fishy and UnSafe based on the permissions being taken by the app versus what is really required for the app to function.^[38]

Lucidroid

Lucidroid is a remote smart phone monitoring tool. It is developed at Lucideus Labs and is not available commercially to end users or corporates.

Services

Lucideus offers services in cyber security consultancy and risk management.

Awards & Recognitions

• Lucideus named as one of Top 5 IT Ventures of 2012 by Entrepreneur Magazine.^[39]
• Lucideus CEO named as Indian Ambassador of Cyber Security in Education at National Education Awards.^[40]
• Lucideus Named as one of India's top 50 Coolest Startups of 2014.^[41]
• Lucideus included in Government of India's committee constituted in 2014 for preparation of vocational course for the new sector "Cyber Security" for National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) under Ministry of Human Resource Development's body All India Council for Technical Education.

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