Aakash Shah

Oak9, Inc. is a cloud-native security company that specializes in finding, analyzing, and remediating cloud infrastructure security and compliance issues in real-time. The company has won several awards, including the Chicago Inno Fire Award and was named a top 15 tech company. The company's proprietary security as code (SAC) blueprints secure cloud-native applications and support over 20 compliance standards out-of-the-box. Oak9 is headquartered in Chicago, IL, and is a startup to watch growing across the United States. Oak9 partners with HashiCorp, AWS, and Microsoft, and actively supports the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Oak9 automates security into cloud infrastructure across the entire software development lifecycle for fast, secure DevOps. The company was founded in 2022 by Aakash Shah and Om Vyas, and the CEO is Raj Datta.