“Zoho selected to run govt email service, confirms Sridhar Vembu: ‘We went through 20 audits and…’ ”, Financial express, October 13, 2025
“Zoho continued its incredible popularity streak this week —with founder Sridhar Vembu revealing that the company had now secured approval to power the National Informatics Centre email system for the Indian government.
“It was announced a while ago. And it has been steadily building up. All of the users are coming on board. About more than 1.5 million users are on board now. And we went through at least about 15, maybe 20 audits of covering all of the areas of our code, our data center, our security practices, all of it. Extensive number of audits we have gone through. And only after that, the NIC team selected Zoho,” he told told Moneycontrol.
The company and its digital offering have seen growing demand in recent weeks — with top government officials endorsing the Arattai social media app. The homegrown WhatsApp alternative has seen a dramatic spike in demand as sign-ups increased from around 3,000 to over 350,000 in just three days last month. Union Ministers and government departments have also switched over to the Zoho Office suite and email service amid a push for ‘swadeshi’ products……”
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