Client names are withheld for confidentiality. Scenarios reflect engagements led by TechnoPlanet Enterprise leaders.
Public sector
Modernising public-sector technology through strategic oversight
The challenge
Government organisations need solutions that are powerful, secure and long-term, within strict procurement protocols. Internal teams often lack current expertise to draft a Request for Proposal (RFP) that captures the complexity of their needs, leading to vague requirements, mismatched bids and costly implementations.
Several public-sector entities needed mission-critical projects, including data-centre design and upgrades, custom application development and the establishment of Network Operations Centres (NOC) and Security Operations Centres (SOC), but struggled to translate operational needs into precise technical specifications.
Our CTO-led approach
- Requirements workshops with operations and IT stakeholders
- Precise technical specifications and evaluation criteria for the RFP
- Vendor-neutral bid evaluation and clarification
- Programme governance through implementation and acceptance
Outcome: clearer RFPs, comparable bids and solutions that match mission needs.
Enterprise · Security
A disjointed security posture on a global scale
The challenge
An Indian multinational with a turnover above ₹100 crore and a presence in 20+ countries had a fragmented security infrastructure. Each international office operated in a silo with disparate policies and no centralised identity management.
- Lack of centralised control: manual, error-prone identity and access management
- Outdated perimeter security: VPN-based access no longer fit a hybrid, cloud-first workforce
- Risk of data breaches: weak identity protection and no data-leak prevention policies
- Analysis paralysis: too many vendors and unclear sizing of hardware and software
Our CTO-led approach
Vendor-neutral evaluation, a zero-trust architecture with centralised identity, and a phased global roll-out with right-sized solutions.
Outcome: a unified security strategy, consistent policy enforcement and a clear path to global compliance.
Healthcare
Enhanced data security for “SecureHealth Providers”
Challenge: regulatory gaps (HIPAA) and a need to strengthen overall data-security posture.
What our CTO did: conducted a comprehensive security audit, implemented multi-factor authentication, established regular penetration testing and guided the team to full HIPAA compliance.
Outcome: significantly reduced security risk and greater patient trust.
Infrastructure · AI-ready security · GDPR & DPDP
Upgrading infrastructure and building an AI-ready, policy-driven security and compliance programme
The challenge
A growing client had infrastructure that had expanded without a plan. Security controls were inconsistent, written policies were missing or out of date, and the business needed to show it complied with the EU GDPR and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act. Leadership also wanted to adopt AI safely, but the existing security model was not built for AI-driven threats or AI workloads.
Our CTO-led approach
- Understand the security landscape. We reviewed assets, data flows, identities, vendors and existing controls, and mapped where personal data was collected, stored and shared.
- Address the gaps. A prioritised gap assessment covered infrastructure, access, endpoint, network, backup and monitoring, with risk ratings and a costed remediation plan.
- Upgrade the infrastructure. We modernised the foundations in phases, with secure cloud and network architecture, centralised identity with multi-factor authentication, and logging that feeds monitoring.
- Implement next-generation, AI-ready security. We designed zero-trust access, data-loss prevention and AI-assisted threat detection, and set guardrails for how AI tools and models may use company data.
- Build a process- and policy-oriented framework. We wrote and rolled out information-security, data-protection, access-control, incident-response, vendor-risk, retention and AI-use policies, each with owners, procedures and review cycles.
- Ensure GDPR and DPDP adherence. We set up a personal-data register, consent and withdrawal handling, data-subject request procedures, breach-notification workflows, retention rules and vendor data-processing terms, then trained staff.
What the client received
- Security gap assessment and risk register
- Phased infrastructure upgrade roadmap
- AI-ready security architecture and AI acceptable-use policy
- Policy and procedure library with clear ownership
- GDPR and DPDP compliance register, consent and breach processes
Outcome: a secure, documented and audit-ready environment where security and compliance run as repeatable processes, and the business can adopt AI with confidence. See also fractional CIO services and our India DPDP-ready CTO services.
