EC-Council Holding Pte. Ltd. has made an investment of more than $20 million in Firecompass Technologies Inc. and its Indian Subsidiary Firecompass Technologies Private Limited,
Khaitan & Co advised EC-Council Holding on this investment transaction.
The core transaction team consisted of Nikhilesh Panchal (Partner), Shivanshu Thaplyal (Partner), Sweta Rao (Counsel), Abhijeet Kamath (Senior Associate) and Bishesh Joshi (Associate) with assistance from the following on due diligence:
Shailendra Bhandare (Partner) and Vaishali Adhikari (Associate) advised on Intellectual Property law aspects.
Supratim Chakraborty (Partner), Sumantra Bose (Counsel) and Himeli Chatterjee (Associate) advised on Data Privacy aspects.
EC-Council Holding is a global leader in cybersecurity education and creator of Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) credential.
FireCompass is an AI-driven security platform that automates continuous red teaming, penetration testing, attack surface management and continuous threat exposure management, using a patented attack-tree engine and agentic AI to discover attacker-visible assets, chain and validate real exploits for near-zero false positives, and combine autonomous testing with expert-in-the-loop PTaaS to prioritize actionable, MITRE-aligned attack paths and remediation guidance.
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