Founded in Bengaluru in 2012 on a premise the industry took another decade to accept: the perimeter was already dead. We've been building what replaced it ever since — and publishing the real numbers as we go.
These are personas, not colleagues — the four access contexts every customer has to cover at once. The same four run through the demos, simulators and console screenshots on this site, so the person answering the auditor here is the person answering it there.
IT operations. He writes the policy the other three live inside — and reaches what a browser cannot, a bastion over SSH and a database port, through the same decision.
InstaSafe was founded in Bengaluru in November 2012 on an unfashionable idea: trust based on network location was already a liability. We built software-defined access — verify the person, verify the device, connect them to exactly what they need and nothing else — before the industry had settled on a name for it.
What follows is that argument being won in public: who backed it, who named it, and what it is measured against now.
An argument, made before anyone had a name for it.
November 2012. A security company started around an argument rather than around a product category.
Trust based on network location was already a liability. Verify the person, verify the device, connect them to exactly what they need — and to nothing else.
The founding premise
The first room where the argument had to survive people equipped to take it apart.
Capital and credibility arrive on two separate tracks.
Finalist, Managed Security Service. Judged from outside for the first time.
Recognised in cloud security. Two outside signals in two years.
Co-invested with the CIO Angel Network, a syndicate of sitting CIOs.
A second backer, from the enterprise IT side of the table.
The analysts catch up, and the argument is given its name.
Gartner names InstaSafe a representative vendor for Zero Trust Network Access. Six years on, the category has a name — and we are on the list under it.
Zero Trust Network Access
DSCI and Gartner recommend InstaSafe for securing remote workforces. Overnight, nobody's network had an inside.
And Technology Fast 500 APAC, in the same year.
India's data-protection body names the product, not the pitch.
Written down, audited, and re-earned season after season.
Winter 2022 through Spring 2025 — scored on verified customer reviews, not on a submission we wrote about ourselves.
ISO 27001 certified. SOC 2 compliant. Built to NIST SP 800-207 — a standards body describing, in its own words, the architecture we started with.
Trust based on network location was already a liability.
Nothing about the premise changed. What changed is who signs it. The temperament did not change either — publish the real numbers, stay out of the customer's data path, and make enterprise-grade security something a lean team can actually run.
Bengaluru and Bhubaneswar · 150+ enterprises · five continentsEvery module runs on the same policy engine and shows up in the same console. One line item, one renewal, one place to look when the auditor calls.
Cybersecurity keeps failing at the same place: not in the cryptography, but in the operating of it. Tools too complex to configure correctly protect no one. Our mission is access security that a lean IT team deploys in days, understands completely, and can defend in front of an auditor — without a services army.
Safe, connected and open — with the abuse of standing trust engineered out. Every request verified against identity, device and context; nothing trusted because of where it sits on a network. We want that to be the default state of enterprise access, not the aspiration.
We publish the numbers competitors keep vague — 25 device checks, 202 event log types, all named, all public. Pricing conversations start with a real number. When something breaks, the status page says so.
25 checks · 202 event typesThe platform ships on a cadence, not an annual release. The 2012 architecture has been rebuilt under customers' feet more than once — without them having to migrate.
Rebuilt without a migrationRecognition we cite is dated and sourced. Case studies name outcomes, not sentiments. If a deployment isn't working, our team is in the ticket queue — support is not a separate company.
Support is not outsourced
Where we aren't, our partners are. Deployments on five continents are delivered and supported through a distribution network that includes Ingram Micro globally — so an InstaSafe rollout in Lagos, Manila or São Paulo comes with local hands, local hours and local paper.
Meet the partner network
Fourteen consecutive G2 report seasons, Winter 2022 through Spring 2025. Every badge is a G2 report InstaSafe placed in — scored on verified customer reviews, not on a submission we wrote about ourselves.
Users Love Us is awarded once a product passes G2's review threshold, and it does not expire.See every award and recognition
We're a Bengaluru product company solving access for some of the largest enterprises in the country. If you'd rather build the category than follow it, we should talk.
//Since 2012//
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