We got tired of watching good teams get hurt
WarnHack started with a simple, frustrating observation: the tools that keep companies secure are either too expensive, too complex, or don't exist yet for the people who need them most.
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WarnHack is officially recognised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India, under the Startup India initiative — validating our commitment to building genuine, innovative cybersecurity solutions for India.
View DPIIT Certificate ↗Naman Dixit
Founder & CEO, WarnHack
5 years in cybersecurity
After five years working across penetration testing, infrastructure security, and training — I kept running into the same wall. Not a technical one. A structural one.
The teams that needed security the most — early-stage startups, lean engineering teams, developers managing their own servers — were the ones the industry had completely ignored. Every serious tool was built for enterprises with dedicated SOC teams and six-figure budgets. Everyone else was left to figure it out with duct tape and hope.
And on the training side, it was the same story. I'd seen talented people spend months consuming content that was either too academic to be useful or too shallow to matter. The gap between "I watched a course" and "I can actually do this" was enormous — and nobody was seriously trying to close it.
WarnHack is my answer to five years of watching that gap go unfilled.
We're building the tools I wish had existed — a SIEM that doesn't require an enterprise contract, a terminal that doesn't require a networking degree to set up, and a training platform that actually prepares you for the real thing. Built lean, priced honestly, and designed for the teams that have been overlooked long enough.
Every product has a real story behind it
We didn't build these because a market report said to. We built them because someone we knew — or we ourselves — needed them and they didn't exist.
WarnHack SIEM
Early AccessWe watched a small startup get breached — not because they didn't care, but because enterprise SIEM tools cost more than their entire engineering budget. They had no visibility. No alerts. They found out weeks later. SIEM was born from that moment: a lightweight agent that gives any Linux server the same detection and response capabilities that Fortune 500 companies pay lakhs for — at a price small teams can actually afford.
Learn moreWarnHack Terminal
NewA developer on our team got a call at 2am — a production server was down. He was traveling. No laptop. Just a phone and a hotel WiFi. He couldn't connect. The server stayed down for hours because SSH keys were on his machine at home. That night, we started building Terminal: a zero-trust browser-based SSH platform so that never happens to anyone again. No client. No keys. Just open a browser and connect — from anywhere.
Learn moreWarnHack Academy
Early AccessNaman spent months trying to learn ethical hacking. The resources were either too theoretical, too expensive, or scattered across a hundred different YouTube channels and PDFs. He wanted one place — structured, hands-on, built by people who actually do this work. Academy is that place. Not a course factory. A training ground. Built for people who want to actually learn, not just collect certificates.
Learn moreWhat we actually believe in
Honest over impressive
We're a startup. We don't have 15,000 students or 95% placement rates — yet. We'd rather earn your trust with honesty than lose it with numbers we made up.
Built from real pain
Every product we build comes from a real problem we or someone we know actually faced. Not market research. Not trend-chasing. Real frustration turned into real solutions.
Security is not optional
We believe every team — no matter how small — deserves proper security tooling. Not watered-down free tiers. Actual protection at a price that doesn't require a CFO's approval.
Ship, learn, improve
We're early. Things will break. We'll fix them fast. We'd rather be in your hands and improving than perfect and invisible.
We're just getting started
If any part of this story resonates with you — whether you're a startup that needs security tooling, a developer tired of SSH key chaos, or someone trying to break into cybersecurity — we'd love to talk.
Not a sales call. Just a conversation.