Mobile Armor Story

“I’m an entrepreneur and my job is to recognize and effect social change. I ask ‘What can I do to meet a demand that is not currently being met that can help take our civilization to the next level?’

I am passionate about contributing to the creation of safety and security standards and solutions for computing devices and software. I believe in giving back to make our world a better and safer place to live.” Chand Vyas
Founder and CEO of Mobile Armor

Chand Vyas, founder and CEO of Mobile Armor, was a first-generation immigrant from his family in India to the United States. He arrived here in 1967 with $8 in his pocket and spent the first night in a bus station in Chicago. Determined to make something of himself and to do something to make the world a better place to live, he got an education, participated in management training, and began working in the coal industry. He worked his way up to serving as CEO of Ziegler Coal Holding Company and took it from a $40 million a year company to a $1 billion plus company. He had a passion for how to reduce U.S. dependency on oil and became involved in shaping national energy policies on alternative fuels.

Mr. Vyas’ passion was redirected after 9/11, which had a profound personal impact on him. A U.S. citizen, he visited Ground Zero and began to consider what he could do to contribute to his adopted country’s sense of security. He hired Bryan Glancey, Sr. VP and CTO of Mobile Armor, who was one of the country’s top data security experts, and together they began to think about technology to make data more secure. They approached the Department of Defense and asked them what they needed and then went to work.

On June 14, 2007-2008 the Data At Rest Tiger Team (DARTT), comprised of 20 DoD components, 18 federal agencies, and NATO, announced that it approved Mobile Armor’s software and hardware encryption products for full disk encryption (FDE), file encryption (FES) and integrated FDE/FES within all federal, state, and local government agencies. Mr. Vyas also had the vision to deliver security and software updates over the air and this technology has been key in Mobile Armor’s partnering with Sprint to sell their mobile data security solutions as a managed service provider (MSP) to large enterprises.

The DARTT announcement and the Sprint partnership have validated Mr. Vyas’ vision of an ever-increasing need for the protection and security of data and information in an environment of rapidly expanding technology for mobile computing and communications. Mr. Vyas’ entrepreneurial spirit and keen sense of how to fill a need will keep Mobile Armor at the forefront of mobile data security for national and international governments, military, financial, technology, healthcare, and infrastructure industries and reach consumers through managed service providers.