Mandiant Appoints Balaji Rao as Country Manager to head India Operations

Mandiant Inc. (NASDAQ: MNDT), the global leader in dynamic cyber defense and response, today announced the appointment of Balaji Rao as its new country manager for India and SAARC markets, responsible for revenue generation, strategic business development and operations.

An industry veteran with over 25 years’ experience working with large MNCs and enterprises in leadership roles, Balaji will be spearheading the team to help organisations in India gain their cyber security advantage with Mandiant’s innovative portfolio of solutions and services. Balaji brings with him deep experience in building successful teams and a demonstrated track record of bringing business back to profitability and enabling adoption of new technologies by customers and partners. 

“No organisation in the world is immune to breaches. Mandiant knows more about threat actors than any other company in the security industry and responds to more than 1,000 cyber security breaches each year. We are committed to scaling our business in India by empowering our Indian customers and partners to take decisive action, minimize risk, regardless of their size or security controls. With Balaji joining our dynamic team, I am confident that we will sharpen our focus to enable more organisations to deploy our controls-agnostics security solutions and services while expanding our growing presence in the Indian subcontinent,” said Eric Hoh, President, Asia Pacific & Japan, Mandiant.

Balaji Rao, Country Manager, India & SAARC, Mandiant said, “I am thrilled to be a part of the Mandiant team, one that is dedicated to delivering unparalleled frontline experience and industry-leading threat intelligence. Mandiant’s leading combination of expertise, intelligence and adaptive technology is a force in the industry. There is no better time than now for organisations in India to take a proactive stance to defend against cyber attacks in this changing threat landscape. Powered by unmatched intelligence and response expertise, Mandiant Advantage SaaS platform provides organisations with the tools they need to build an effective cyber security program and I look forward to helping them gain their cyber security advantage with Mandiant.”