zove: trust + security+ engineering

Transform your security story.

Everyone wants their digital lives to feel safe. Higher trust leads to greater engagement and a healthier bottom-line. Market leaders lean into this desire and aspire to deliver technology experiences that are awe-inspiring and trustworthy. Several factors hinder trustworthy platforms and products, including short-term focus, complexity, resource constraints, and lack of expertise. As a result security engineering efforts are often short-lived with underwhelming results.

At ZOVE , we conducted multi-year research on what deepens customer trust. Our experience and research points to transformative security journeys where action can lead to lasting change. ZOVE provides product security services to accelerate your security journey.

Security Journeys

Want to move the needle on trust & security? These journeys will get you there. ZOVE can accelerate them for you.

Software security programs are rife with one-off pen tests to secure products. While bespoke security efforts may address specific needs, they often come with disadvantages, such as lack of scalability, inconsistency, and higher costs. As a rule of thumb, five bespoke engagement per year can lead to a scalable program.
Zove’s OnRamp to Security approach constrains the unknown and optimizes the known. A structured approach that yields scale, consistency, and lower cost.
The 80-20 rule aka the Pareto Principle dominates security prioritization and resource allocation. It leads to a majority of effort focused on the top 20% of identified risk. Guess what? There is still a tremendous amount of risk in the next 30%. We call that the flank.
Understandably, the bulk of your team focuses on the highest risk. The reality is that flagship projects get a lot of help. Non-flagship projects don’t get the help but are held to the same exacting standards. Zove’s Secure the Flanks program creates cost-effective ways to address the needs of the next 20% of risk areas. It extends security reach to crucial but often neglected areas like M&A, legacy products, and subsidiaries.
Secure software development faces challenges such as complexity, evolving threats, limited resources, skill gaps, human error, legacy systems, and compliance requirements. These challenges make it difficult for organizations to build and maintain secure applications. The trouble is, most teams can’t build secure software. Zove can.
Using Zove, an expert at secure development, can offer several benefits, including expertise in security best practices, reduced risk of breaches, cost savings through outsourcing, faster product delivery, assistance in compliance with security regulations, and access to continuous research and development efforts for staying up to date with the threat landscape.
To maintain trust in their technology and business model, companies need to prioritize transparency, security, and ethical practices. Trusted operations are essential in the journey to maintain customer trust. Customers need to feel confident that companies are operating with integrity and that their personal and sensitive information is being handled with care. In FinTech, trust is built through security measures and transparency in policies, practices, and technology. In HealthTech, privacy and ethical practices regarding medical treatment are essential. Technology platform businesses need to focus on moderation, privacy, and fairness in their policies and algorithms. By prioritizing these values, companies can establish themselves as trustworthy leaders in their respective industries.
Zove understands that trustworthy operations, TrustOps, are the critical link missing in many companies’ armor. A key reason for this miss is the lack of a partner that can handle complexity and scale. We understand that trust journeys can be unique. Read about some of our successes.
The era of ever-expanding security budgets is over (and for many it never even began). Doing more with less is the mantra (groan!). In reality, the resources allocated may diminish over time, yet problem complexity remains near constant.
In many such cases Zove can help. The secret sauce is a focus on programmatic efficiencies, a proven ability to solve complex problems, and a carefully curated collection of global partners,. The result is often lowered cost, simplified execution against complex tasks, and scale.
It’s vexing to keep your eyes on the future when there’s a crisis in the present. Engineering security teams often fail to prepare for the imminent future. Emerging trends can catch them off-guard. As a result, rather than accelerate innovation they can slow it down.
Zove’s Emerging Technology practice provides contextualized solutions to make you resilient to complex changes. Thankfully we have people who ponder over what the impact of AI will be on fraud, how will the landscape of plagiarizing change, what’s at risk from quantum computing (its bad and you are unprepared), what do property rights in the digital world mean.

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ZoveTrustAI - Transforming Cybersecurity for High-Value Individuals

ZoveTrustAI is an advanced cybersecurity platform designed to safeguard high-value targets (HVTs), defined to include sensitive individuals like executives, journalists, and celebrities from sophisticated cyber threats. A leading technology hyperscaler faced increasing cyber threats from state-sponsored actors targeting its sensitive customers. Traditional security measures failed to provide timely and accurate threat intelligence, leaving individuals vulnerable.
Implementing ZoveTrustAI, the institution leveraged its generative models and personalized context to enhance threat detection and response. ZoveTrustAI's unique integration of on-device and server-based models provided real-time, actionable intelligence, significantly reducing the risk of undetected attacks.
During a six-month deployment, ZoveTrustAI identified multiple previously unknown active threats, preventing potential breaches. The institution reported in over a 300% increase in fidelity of detection in attacks against sensitive individuals and a 50% improvement in response times. ZoveTrustAI's personalized approach ensured highly relevant intelligence, empowering the security team to protect the institution's most critical assets effectively.
A revolutionary FinTech startup becomes resilient to fraud

It all began with a bold idea. Easy payments for everyone in Africa. Our customer is transforming the lives of millions of traders and shopkeepers. No longer in the fiscal dark, they have access to the digital economy. Together, everyone can thrive.
The ugly head of massive financial fraud, threatened to endanger this novel financial ecosystem. Our customer engaged Zove to make themselves resilient to fraud. We quickly identified risky transactions, developed a fraud framework, and operationalized response to stop fraudulent transactions.
Tech major frustrated with securing seven product generations

One imagines that after making 10+ generations of devices, perhaps after you’ve generated billions in revenue and profit, you can relax. Sit back, ponder over all the new things you will do and devote your energies to making your ideas true. Not quite. There is the pesky business of ensuring your current users are satisfied and secure. You have to spend your energies squashing pesky security issues in older products.
Our client chose to think differently. Leveraging Zove’s N-1 generation security service they were able to quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively address security issues with older product lines. They found that focusing energy and attention brought better returns when focused on the next cycle of innovation and revenue.
Board's saga, a tale of securing the future while earning trust

Placing big blind bets is not a strategy for success if you are one of the worlds largest technology innovators. Periodically, our customer releases a three year product roadmap to its board of directors. The board asks Zove’s founder Akshay Aggarwal to provide an independent perspective on the product roadmap with a view to improve privacy, security, and trust. After all, the board is in the business of managed managed bets.
Winning in an emerging future, a tale of digital ownership in Web3

The concept is age old, the realization is avant-garde. The age old: property owners have rights. The avant-garde: exerting the same property rights on digital content. Our client is a joint venture between one of the worlds oldest financial institutions and a crypto platform. They are designing platforms to be the building blocks of digital ownership. First wave of implementations include NFT-powered art galleries, tokenization processes, and smart -contract based systems. They turned to Zove’s Trusted Blockchain services to understand design risk, and deliver a resilient platform. Zove’s approach overcame a key challenge to scale. It supported their ecosystem partners with nimble security assessment services that had predictable effort and reasonable cost.