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> AI-native security products, operating at machine speed.

Bugz builds AI-native security products — starting with Bugz IaC Agent (secure infrastructure-as-code and multi-cloud), plus API and OT/ICS security. For startups shipping AI/ML features fast and governments running critical infrastructure alike, we forward-deploy: our team builds, secures, and ships it alongside yours. Proven at the highest stakes for Karnataka's government, guided by CySecK and IISc.

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Products

A product company at the core.

Bugz IaC Agent is our core product — alongside live security products for API and OT/ICS. Security as an input, from the first commit.

Bugz IaC Agent

Generates secure infrastructure-as-code and manages multi-cloud environments — security as an input from the first commit.

View the repo on GitHub →
Core product

Security products

Live

API Security

AI-native API security that lets startups ship ML/AI features fast — without exposing their API surface to attack.

Live

OT/ICS Security

AI-native security for operational-technology and industrial control systems, where downtime is not an option and threats are physical.

In development

Autonomous Response

The next step: agents that don’t just detect, but contain and respond within guardrails — closing the loop from signal to action.

Forward Deployment

We deploy it with you.

We don't ship software and leave. Our team embeds with yours to build, secure, and operate it — combining security architecture, AI-driven operations, and continuous compliance into one way of working.

Resilient infrastructure

Bugz IaC Agent generates secure-by-default infrastructure-as-code, and we harden the systems that have to stay up — designing for failure, isolation, and recovery before an attacker forces the question.

AI-native security operations

AI agents in the loop across assessment, drift detection, and response — so the estate is watched and hardened at machine speed, with humans in command.

Compliance & audit readiness

Continuous mapping to the frameworks that matter — CIS, NIST, ISO, CERT-In and RBI — turning audits from a scramble into a status check.

Case study · Public sector

A cyber-resilience platform for Karnataka's government.

Government systems carry the highest stakes and the hardest constraints. We forward-deployed a cyber-resilience assessment platform for Karnataka's state institutions — built to stay resilient under pressure, under the guidance of CySecK, Karnataka's K-Tech Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security, and IISc.

Sovereign by design
On-prem and in-VPC deployment, least-privilege by default, no customer data leaving the estate.
Standards-aligned
Mapped to CERT-In, RBI, NIST and CIS — the frameworks public infrastructure is held to.
Research-led
Built alongside CySecK and IISc, so the approach is grounded in research, not just tooling.

Trusted by forward-thinking teams

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Bugz actually do?

Bugz is a product company. Our core product, Bugz IaC Agent, generates secure infrastructure-as-code and manages multi-cloud environments, alongside security products for API and OT/ICS. When teams need it shipped fast, we forward-deploy — building, securing, and shipping it with them — most recently a cyber-resilience platform for Karnataka’s government.

Who do you work with?

Startups building ML/AI products use our security products — and forward-deploy with us — to ship features fast without opening new attack surface. We also run cyber resilience for Karnataka’s state government and its digital public infrastructure, guided by CySecK and IISc, and partner with enterprises and critical-infrastructure operators that need an AI-native approach to security.

What does “AI-native” mean here?

It means AI is in the loop across the whole lifecycle — assessment, hardening, drift and threat detection, and response — rather than bolted on as an afterthought. The goal is security that operates at machine speed with humans in command.

Are you a services agency or a product company?

A product company. Bugz IaC Agent is our core product, alongside security products for API and OT/ICS. We also forward-deploy — our team builds and ships it with you — which is how we delivered the Karnataka cyber-resilience platform. Engagements harden the products, and the products make engagements repeatable.

How does an engagement start?

Usually with a scoped Resilience Assessment — a fixed-duration diagnostic that maps your attack surface and compliance gaps. From there, a Resilience Engagement hardens the highest-risk surfaces and stands up AI-native security operations. We aim to deliver tangible value in weeks, not quarters.

Is our data safe with you?

Yes. We support on-prem and in-VPC deployment, follow zero-trust by default, and never train models on customer data. The security of your environment is the product, not a side effect — nothing leaves your estate without your governance.

Still have questions? Talk to us

By the numbers

Two years, measured honestly.

Not vanity metrics — the real shape of building a company: the pitches, the pipeline, and the bets that didn't land.

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Years building
10+
Pitches given
0
Industry stages
0
Cohorts completed

Pipeline

100+
Cold
3+
Warm
1
Hot

From a hundred cold conversations to one real signal. That's the funnel nobody puts on a slide.

Lean fits

2POCs sunset

We killed two proofs of concept early. Not failures — lean fits: fast to build, faster to learn from, and the reason we found the direction we're on now.

Programs & recognition

Selected, and seen through to the end.

CySecK H.A.C.K

Completed

CySecK · Karnataka

Selected and completed. Karnataka’s flagship cybersecurity acceleration programme, run by the state Centre of Excellence.

T-Hub Rubrix

Completed

T-Hub · Hyderabad

Selected and completed. A deep-tech programme at India’s leading innovation ecosystem, sharpening go-to-market and product.

Where we showed up

In the room, on the stages that matter.

Two years of showing up across India's cybersecurity and deep-tech community.

  1. 01VulnCon
  2. 02BSides Bangalore
  3. 03CSA CyBe
  4. 04DSCI AISS
  5. 05BFI
  6. 06Bengaluru Tech Summit
  7. 07Nullcon ’25
  8. 08CySecK Annual Conference

The journey

Two years, built the hard way.

It's easy to build. It's brutally hard to find fit. This is the honest version of the last two years — the pivots, the sunset POCs, and the lesson that fail-faster only works if someone gives it to you straight.

“Staying liquid.”The mantra we kept coming back to — adapt, or get left behind.