Koenig Solutions recognized for Being a Great Employer

Singapore, Aug 14 ,2015: India’s leading IT training institute Koenig Solutions has been honored at the prestigious CMO Asia Awards for its innovative HR practices that make employee happiness the cornerstone of the organization’s policy.

Koenig Solutions was awarded the "Organization with Innovative HR Practices" at the sixth edition of the prestigious Asia's Best Employer Brand Award at a ceremony held at Singapore this week. On behalf of Koenig Solutions, Mr. Sanjay Manocha, Manager, Branding & Marketing Communications, received the award.

Asia's Best Employer Brand Award is hosted by Employer Branding Institute, World HRD Congress and Stars of the Industry Group, & Endorsed by Asian Confederation of Business.

At the grand event held at Pan Pacific, Singapore, awards were given out in 33 individual and 38 organizational categories selected out of several nominations from countries such as India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh participating at the event.

Koenig Solutions stands steadfast in its belief that happy employees form the bedrock of a successful organization. With this realization, the organization has worked relentlessly to mould its HR policies towards ensuring maximum employee satisfaction.

“Koenig’s culture and ethos have been created to encourage employees to feel cared for. That human resource is not to be treated as dispensable is our core belief. With this idea in mind, we have over the years adopted a series of innovative HR policies such as encouraging better work-life balance, following a strong approach to meritocracy and a inculcating a happiness paradigm in our everyday culture. We are proud to be a happy organization and this award further encourages us to continue innovating on HR,” says Ms. Sakshi Gaba Dhawan, Manager, Human Resource, Koenig Solutions.

Koenig was established in the year 1993 by Mr. Rohit Aggarwal in New Delhi as a modest training centre for the domestic market. However, in 2001, the dotcom bubble burst led Koenig to turn to offshore opportunities in order to remain afloat in a highly competitive market. Since then, Koenig has dramatically risen to be one of the most sought after IT education companies with delighted customers from over 50 countries across the globe. It is now the fastest growing IT training company in India with the largest no. of in-house trainers under one roof (more than 300).

Koenig Solutions also lays special emphasis on retention of talent. It follows a transparent system that encourages people to share ideas through open communication and feedback at all levels of hierarchy. The organizations practices engagement programs such as an internal book club, involving employees in CSR programs, continuous training and development.

Yoga at Koenig is a daily practice, and the company organizes free yoga sessions for its students, staff as well as society's underprivileged students. This is part of Koenig's Ethos and Koenig Culture to take care of your mind, body and soul.

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Post Budget Reaction comment from Koenig Solutions

Mr Rohit Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of Koenig Solutions said, “We genuinely welcome the budget’s emphasis on giving a friendly environment and financial incentives to business start-ups, especially in the IT sector. The FM has proposed Rs 1,000 crore to help IT start-ups, and support funding needs of small firms. The FM rightly recognized the IT sector as one of India’s leading employers in the services sector. The financial proposal will boost entrepreneurship in the IT sector and create more jobs.

This is a manufacturing friendly budget, very much in line with the ‘Make in India’ thrust. From the point of view of the IT industry specifically, the streamlining of the Special Additional Duty will pave way for local manufacturing benefits to some IT products.

Overall, it is a positive growth friendly budget that gives the right direction to the economy by giving incentives to business, infrastructure and manufacturing. The proposal to reduce corporate tax from 30 % to 25 % for the next four years will give a healthy boost to spending, business and employment generation.

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Koenig offers Advanced Courses in Web Security

With Internet security and information theft becoming a major concern of our time, there is need for greater infrastructural defenses against cyber attacks. Not just technology and safeguard equipment, organizations today are in desperate need of a well-trained workforce which is equipped and skilled to man the security infrastructure.

Leading IT training provider, Koenig Solutions, has unveiled a series of advanced training programs and courses to produce a workforce that is well equipped in web application security systems, and have the training and ability to out think cyber criminals and hackers.

Developed by EC Council in collaboration with well-respected subject-matter experts and industry practitioners, the CAST (Centre for Advanced Security Training) programs are aimed at nurturing an advanced next generation of cyber security providers. The Advanced Security Training Courses cover a wide variety of cyber concerns.

There are Seven Domains of CAST that Koenig is offering to web programmes and developers: Advanced Penetration Testing; Advanced Mobile Hacking & Forensics; Hacking and Hardening your Corporate WebApplication; Advanced Network Defense; Securing Windows Infrastructure; Designing and Implementing Cloud Security; and Advanced SQLi Attacks and Countermeasures.

“We are increasingly realizing that no matter how secure our systems are, we cannot remain immune to cyber attacks and information thefts as some recent experiences with highly advanced hackers have revealed. Often, the hackers and cyber criminals manage to outthink us and find a loophole to creep into our systems. The recourse is to nurture a new breed of web security experts who can think ahead of the criminals, foresee possible loopholes and block them in time. Our web programmers should simultaneously be trained in highly advanced security processes so that they taje care of the security aspect, even as they programme. Our web security courses are aimed at producing such a breed of well trained cyber security experts,” says Mr Rohit Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of Koenig Solutions.

As we realize the need for such a workforce, we also realize that there is a wide gap between the demand and supply of web application programmers who are also well-trained in the aspect of infrastructural and information security. Familiarity with a web security domain can also give web programmers a certain edge in their field.

Today with new threats emerging, information security professionals cannot remain content with traditional training. Rather, they have to stay up-to-date on rapidly evolving threats, and security technologies to counter them. Over the years hackers have become more sophisticated, and attacks more intense and devastating. Advanced security training to keep you aware of the latest remedial technology and process is indispensable.

In most cases, an organization’s integrity, credibility and trustworthiness depends on its ability to safeguard information of its clients. This ability comes not just from advanced technology and tolls but also from advanced security experts who can work in conjugation with the technology to protect the information systems.

As an IT training provider, Koenig aims to fulfill an entire range of training needs for workers and organizations in the field of IT. Web security is one of the major concerns in the domain today. With CAST courses, one can become a Certified Advanced Information Security Expert.

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