RiverForge Cyber wasn’t born in a boardroom—it was forged in the fire of necessity, passion, and a quiet rebellion against the way things have always been.
After a year and a half of teaching at the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina, our founder, Kumar, noticed a painful pattern. Bright, ambitious students—sharp minds hungry for purpose—kept asking the same question:
“How do I get experience when no one will give me a chance?”
The answer wasn’t in another lecture. It was in action.
So Kumar built something small—a place where these students could learn by doing. Where they could gain real-world experience solving real-world problems. It wasn’t a company yet. It was a mission.
But this mission was just getting started.
With eight years of experience working Apple tech support, Kumar had spent nearly a decade being the voice on the other end of frustration—calmly solving crises while being used as a verbal punching bag. He had mastered the art of patience. He had learned what it meant to be resilient. And when he finally walked away from that safety net and took a leap into the world of industrial product security at one of the largest manufacturing giants in the country, something else became crystal clear:
Big companies can afford cybersecurity.
Small ones are left to fend for themselves.
That didn’t sit right.
So Kumar walked away again—from comfort, from complacency, from watching businesses get picked off like low-hanging fruit—and built RiverForge Cyber.
We exist for the underdogs.
For the small business owners wearing too many hats.
For the startups with dreams bigger than their budgets.
For the companies that deserve protection—but can’t afford an army.
At RiverForge Cyber, we believe cybersecurity is not a privilege.
It’s a necessity. And everyone deserves access to it.
We are educators. We are defenders. We are builders.
We’re not here to sell fear—we’re here to forge resilience.
This is RiverForge Cyber.
Where small businesses find the protection they’ve been denied for far too long.
