Our story

The question

Every project starts with a question.
Ours was simple: How can one person protect several organizations at once – without losing clarity, time, or sanity?

The answer didn’t come easily.
We grew up in the world of projects, audits, assessments, and endless reports. For years, we investigated systems that were supposed to keep data safe and watched them slowly collapse under the weight of paperwork, spreadsheets, and procedures.

The Challenge

Cybersecurity had become something you had to do, not something that made sense to do.

And we thought – it doesn’t have to be that way.

There were plenty of “big solutions” on the market promising oversight and control. But for smaller companies and public institutions, they were as distant as science fiction.
And we knew exactly those people – managers who wanted to do things right, but lacked the time, money, or team to make it happen.

That’s how the idea was born.
Not overnight, not during a single brainstorming session, but gradually.

The IDEA

From conversations, from long meetings, from late evenings after audits.
A thought kept coming back: What if there was a tool that could turn all that bureaucracy and technical clutter into something that simply works?
Not for corporations, but for the people who do this job every day.

We called it TAZILLA.

It may sound like the name of a movie monster, but it’s the opposite.
Something that protects instead of attacks.
Something that grew out of frustration, but also out of deep respect for the work itself.

When we first talked about TAZILLA in early 2022, the NIS Directive was already in place.
It had set the first rules and obligations for operators of essential services.
But it also showed one thing clearly, that rules alone weren’t enough.
And as NIS2 began to take shape, it was obvious that these requirements would soon reach a much wider range of organizations.

The problem was clear: there wouldn’t be enough people to handle it all.

And that’s when the question returned: How can one CISO serve multiple organizations at the same time?
That question became a plan.
The plan became a project.
And the project, with the support of the Digital Europe programme, became reality.

The Journey

Building TAZILLA was anything but romantic.
It was months of discussions, design drafts, arguments, tests, and rewrites.
Countless whiteboards filled with schemes that made no sense until suddenly they did.
And, of course, far too much coffee.

In 2025, the first version finally saw the light of day.
Not perfect, but alive.

We still remember those first presentations.
People walked in with that sceptical look, the kind that says: “Show us what you’ve got, but don’t expect to impress us.”
They’d already seen dozens of tools, each promising miracles.
Then we showed them TAZILLA.
At first, they leaned back in their chairs, arms crossed.
By the end, they were leaning forward – asking questions, clicking through features, testing things on their own.
They might not have admitted it out loud, but it was obvious – they’d changed their minds.
Scepticism turned into surprise.
And surprise into genuine excitement.

That was the moment we knew it was worth it.

The Purpose

Today, TAZILLA is more than software.
It’s a companion that translates the experience of an auditor into the daily toolkit of a cybersecurity manager.
It learns, alerts, observes, and simplifies.
It takes care of the repetitive work so people can focus on what really matters.

The Future

By 2026, it will evolve into a full-scale CISO as a Service solution – not a dream, not an experiment, but a working platform built from practice, for practice.

You don’t create something that changes the way people work every day very often.
But when you do – you know it’s real.

And that’s the story of TAZILLA.
Not a product brand, but a group of people who were tired of how things were done and decided to make them better.