Rahul Sasi
Co-Founder & CEO, CloudSEK · 3 appearances on the record.
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Rahul Sasi is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CloudSEK. Previously, he worked in threat research and security engineering at Citrix and iSIGHT Partners.
35statements → 19claims → 10claims resolved → 70%fully supported → 3.86/5average certainty → 1.94/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 3said about them ↓
7 supported 2 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 8 not checkable as stated how the 19 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
6 predictions · 13 assertions · 12 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 19 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 10 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 8 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
The record, in short
What the tape says about how Rahul argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
Their most notable supported claim
Sasi: India's core Aadhaar database infrastructure has never had a verified breach
“Till date, we don't have a incident which is verified where the, that Aadhaar database has been breached. So people crying Aadhaar data breached, which is wrong. So that infrastructure was never breached according to my knowledge.”
Their most notable contradicted claim
Sasi: CloudSEK will grow from 100 to 400 customers within two years
“We are going from a hundred customers to one, we're gonna go from a hundred. To two 50 customers, you know this year, this financial year. From there, we want to go from two 50 to 400 customers the other year. So within two years, we'll grow, we'll reach close…”
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Sasi: India's core Aadhaar database infrastructure has never had a verified breach
“Till date, we don't have a incident which is verified where the, that Aadhaar database has been breached. So people crying Aadhaar data breached, which is wrong. So that infrastructure was never breached according to my knowledge.”
Sasi: Hackers can technically disable pacemakers remotely to kill individuals
“Today you can actually remotely, you know, destroy someone's pacemaker and kill that person. Technically.”
Rahul Sassi says engineers and salespeople should learn each other's skills
“I think the way to conclude it is that, you know, the engineer should become good salespeople and the salespeople should acquire the skills of engineers.”
Rahul Sassi predicts no specific job roles will become obsolete soon
“It's just safe to say that in the next couple of years, this is going to be, I don't think a job role will become obsolete per se.”
Rahul Sassi says tasks impacting humans will always require human decision-makers
“The criteria is that if there are other human beings involved in the actions, I mean, consequences of an action, then you would need a human being.”
CloudSEK mandates that product staff prototype end-to-end to remain employed
“From the idea of prototype end-to-end, making sure it's useful, it should be on you. If you are not able to do that, you should not be part of employment.”
Rahul Sassi predicts B2B enterprise transactions will occur between AI systems
“But I think there's a near future, I don't know how about the future where Enterprise to enterprise communication will be through APIs, where another enterprise consumes another API to do the work, which means AI will be able to consume another company or leve…”
Sasi: CloudSEK found ATM vendor flaw exposing live footage and cash schedules
“We discovered a simple issue that allowed any ATM in the country to be monitored because the vendor who was managing that ATM had a misconfiguration in one of their audit application, and it was exposed on the internet, which allowed anyone to see the live foo…”
Sasi: ChatGPT-10 will replicate human hackers to compromise computers at scale
“In my perspective, you know, ChatGPT four would be able to do X, but ChatGPT 10 will have much more higher capabilities which can replicate a human hacker and their behavior and people who have access to that can just reprogram that to compromise computers at …”
Sasi: Chinese loan syndicates laundered extortion money via Indian hair exports
“Part of the research we saw in Tiripati or some of those places where you sell hair, you know, you donate hair and this hair is eventually going somewhere and gets sold. So the commodity of hair is going out. So let's say a Chinese buyer is buying their hair. …”
Sasi: AI will enhance productivity rather than replace jobs for 5-8 years
“One thing I can immediate, I think in the next few years, you will see people using AI to do their jobs better. At what level? So that is how it is going to be. People will transition to or use these tools to do their jobs better. And I think that'll be the ne…”
Sasi: Sales candidates cannot be qualified in interviews; references are essential
“Engineers, you can evaluate him with the code, and then do an apt attitude test, and then, well, you're sorted. But sales folks, you're not, you know, qualifying, you can't qualify them with an interview, which is why good reference is important, right?”
Sasi: New products never come from customers; innovators design solutions
“Most of the product functionalities or let's say a new product will never come from a customer. Customer will never know what is the exact solution. They will always have a problem. Right? Building the right solution is the innovator's job.”
Sasi: Startups can risk product features, but not hiring
“You can take the higher risk in terms of a product functionality, but you can't take a high risk in terms of a hiring.”
Sasi: Presumed North Korean hackers exfiltrated $1B from Bangladesh Bank
“If you know about the Bangladesh bank heist, a billion dollar. Was exfiltrated from the bank. By presumed to be North Korean hackers. And they worked on it for months.”
Sasi: Learning cybersecurity from books is ineffective without hands-on lab practice
“Cybersecurity isn't a topic you can read and learn from books. That's like the most bullshit way of Learning cybersecurity. It has to be practiced. So for that, you need the lab facility, or you have to look at real world scenarios.”
Sasi: Indian researchers rank in top ten on Google and Meta bounties
“In fact, if you look at Facebook or Google's bug bounty is where companies pay security folks money to find a security incident. So they, Google typically pays 10,000 dollars, which is what, seven lakh for a good security bug. Now, in the top three list of eac…”
Sasi: Cybercrime is inversely proportional to economic conditions
“Crime is, or cyber crime or crime is inversely proportional to the economics. Right. When economy goes down, crime goes up. So tired to cities, the economy is bad. I mean, people have to trying to feed their family So they'll do any sort of means to make that …”
Sasi: Phishing will never decline because humans are the weakest link
“Phishing is one thing you would never see going down. One firm or the other will always exist because humans are the weakest link in cybersecurity. There will always be one person who will make that mistake.”
Sasi: Privacy regulations hamper ad giants while driving cybersecurity business growth
“And if you look at the, if you look at this space, the last 10 regulations that came is a headwind for marketing companies, Google, Facebook. Their business is hampered by this. But cybersecurity market is booming because of these same regulations. This is a h…”
Sasi: Non-state hackers sell stolen data rather than directly exploit it
“The people who hack it don't directly use it, unless you are a government entity. The other hackers, what they do is they put that data for sale, So that someone else is actually utilizing it.”
Sasi: Khosla's view that investors are unfirable employees is accurate
“Kostler has this important saying investors are employees whom you can't file. And if you look at that, it is very accurate.”
Rahul Sasi: Founders build better companies intending to run them forever
“If you're just building a house, knowing that you would sell it eventually, you're not going to put all your thoughts and efforts into building that house. Rather, you're going to build a house knowing that you're going to live in that house forever. You'll ma…”
Sasi: Dark web markets sell stolen credit cards for five dollars
“In fact, you go to the dark web, you can buy the credit card of someone for five dollars. You can buy, there will be listings like Amazon listing, where you can actually buy the data of any company and their employees and including their salary, payslips and a…”
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Appearances (3)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Tech Founders on Whether AI Will Replace Your Job ft Rahul, Ananda and Vishwa | May 10, 2025 | 8m |
| Darkest Indian SCAMS - Jamtara, Aadhaar Data, And Dark Web Secrets I Rahul Sasi I The Neon | Mar 15, 2024 | 44m |
| DROPPING OUT Of College To Building India's Leading CYBER SECURITY Company ft. Rahul Sasi | Apr 4, 2022 | 28m |