Meet Entrepreneur Emir Ceric who’s transforming Cyber Security through his Unique Skills and Strategies
By the year 2025, global cybercrime is predicted to cost as much as $10 trillion or more annually. Meanwhile the threat of ransomware in particular is rising significantly. Ransomware is a cybercrime in which the threat of publishing a victim’s personal information or blocking their access to it is made unless a ransom is paid.
Cyber security is on everyone’s mind since we live in a digital world. As more and more of our lives continue to migrate online, cyber security is becoming a top priority we must consider personally and professionally. Whether it’s our shopping, health, business, school, or personal information, everything is online, and we must be diligent in protecting it. Let us know about entrepreneur Emir Ceric who is a proficient in this domain.
Entrepreneur Emir Ceric is an expert in cyber security who is also the Founder and CEO of Meveto, a leading cyber security firm that preserves digital safety and ending data breaches that destroy lives and livelihood alike. “What inspired me to create Meveto was to be able to offer a safer way to authenticate ourselves online with minimal threat of compromise.” says Emir.
Among the many young entrepreneurs that have made their mark as self-motivated and self-driven individuals and professionals, Emir Ceric has stood tall and inimitable in the business world and in the cyber security industry. He is a trend-setting entrepreneur who has an infamous reputation in his line of business; however, many would argue that he’s just making ingenious business decisions and using his own knowledge and experience to his advantage. Emir Ceric believes that the importance of digital safety cannot be understated, as data theft is one of the greatest threats that we currently face in the internet age where some of our most sensitive and crucial data is stored online. He stresses on the fact that large corporations and companies that house this data are not the ones left to sweep up the shattered pieces when data breaches happen. This makes the issue of data theft an incredibly personal one. Emir Ceric shares, “As a consumer myself, I feel the same frustration and fear of risking personal data with every online purchase that I do.” Meveto has also achieved a unique recognition – “We are the first and only passwordless company on the market to have SOC 2 – Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and ISO 9001 certification, ensuring quality and reliability of our product,” says Emir. This is pivotal because they’ve accomplished all of this without raising any money from investors and their growth has been based entirely on efficiency and reliability. Emir adds, “Being self-funded has proven that not only is our product incredibly reliable, but our process is innovative and something that consumers have been looking to adopt for quite some time.”
Today, the digital world has become a world of its own, which every day come up with new challenges for people to overcome, but that which also opens gates of incredible new opportunities for them to flourish. Let us further know about Emir Ceric. Born in Bosnia & Herzegovina, he grew up in Denmark after fleeing the Bosnian War with his family. At the age of 15, Emir started working 3 jobs, from delivering newspapers to cleaning at a mechanics shop and others. He has always had a drive for building his own business. Having lost everything in the war, and living in Denmark as a refugee, he strived to create a better life for himself and his family.
Through the years Emir has been diligently working towards betterment for everyone. Having lived through a civil war and being forced to abandon everything he owned and flee home for the safety of his life, Emir knows what it means to struggle to make ends meet. Emirs’ genuine desire is therefore to help everyone struggling, to the best of his abilities, because he knows how difficult things can get. In 2009, right in the midst of the global financial crisis, Emir launched his first business, VEEVUS, using the savings from his prior jobs. VEEVUS is today considered the market leader for threads and tinsels in the fly-tying industry. Selling millions of spools, VEEVUS products are available in over 3000 stores worldwide including several multi-billion-dollar chains.
Having built up his digital platform skills and knowledge on cyber security for years at such a young age, Emir already had years of experience in the up-and-coming field compared to the experience of his peers. What really took his success to the next level, though? Emir answers this by saying, “Every single sector of business has an online universe where crucial trends and concepts are developing every day. If you don’t grab your digital passport and travel there, then you will be unapologetically left behind.”
Emir believes that every brand which holds a place of esteem in today’s digital age reached its respected position because someone took the time to share the name, ethos, and personality of the brand through online networking. As such, there are numerous Digital Marketing experts everywhere who are trying to make it big in this field but not every one of them is really efficient nor successful as Emir Ceric. He has been effective in standing out from the crowd and is the most sought after person when it comes to digital platforms.
Apart from being a Digital Marketer, Emir Ceric is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, content creator and an influencer! As there are big scopes in the field of Digital Marketing, he started providing a platform where he provides business strategies for different organizations, and personalities and helps boost their popularity to a large extent. With such a large potential audience, Emir uses social media to boost brand awareness. Due to his creativity and unique brand strategies, he attracts large audiences which enables brands to reach an enormous range of target groups. Being highly resourceful has made him become one of the top influencer marketers and has been able to enjoy a high degree of trust with leading companies. Rightly so, Emir has garnered over 254K followers on his Instagram handle. As he provides immersive content and has diversity it creates great opportunities for brands to hold the attention of a passionate and influential audience. As he is also a prolific influencer, he creates informative content on his Instagram profile in the form of reels and videos to keep his audience engaged. He also organizes webinars where he speaks about his experience in entrepreneurship and on ways to succeed.
It’s hard to argue against the fact that Emir is, in fact, a brilliant businessman, as this strategy has made him reach heights of success and continues to generate more money. Due to his effective business strategies, Emir has had great success with enterprise clients, and his record thus far is having 70 companies sign up with him in just one hour. His brainchild-Meveto is used to protect their accounts and those of the fortune 500 companies, such as Amazon AWS, Salesforce, Google G Suite, Zoom, and many more. Says Emir, “We currently have, on average, over 150 companies requesting meetings with us every single day, and that doesn’t include all of the new subscribers that are signing up every day either directly or via email, so it’s always super busy.”
According to Emir, when you’re evaluating a business idea or trying to come up with a new one, think about pain points. Once you figure out how to resolve one like Emir Ceric, you’ll be setting yourself up for success.
