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It may be a good idea to outsource
your security needs, especially to avoid the capital
and operational expenditure in procuring equipment,
managing infrastructure, and hiring qualified personnel.
A look at how a Managed Security Service Provider can
help you. by Soutiman Das Gupta
An enterprise is
only as secure as its weakest link. This is something
all CTOs know very well, and is also what gives many
of them worries and headaches. A breach in security
can cause loss of revenue, time, and most important,
loss of faith. Customers are likely to lose trust in
case of a security breach.
It is very difficult
to win back customer faith, but not so difficult to
ensure that a situation where network security will
be compromised, does not arise.
The best strategy
is to build a rock-solid network defense and back it
with a carefully laid-out strategy. But this requires
a lot of capital investment, incremental and operational
costs, manpower planning, and resource management. A
good idea is to transfer these burdens to someone else.
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Outsourcing security
Outsourcing security
may be a good idea for organizations that want to dedicate
its finances and other resources to its core business
areas, rather than on complex IT systems that need a
lot of dedication.
SecureSynergy is
one of the first Managed Security Service Providers
in India and delivers information assurance to an enterprise.
The company aims to help enterprises focus on core business
issues and facilitate complete outsourcing of design,
implementation, monitoring, and management of their
security infrastructures.
The service offerings
are backed by a Network Operations Center (NOC) and
a Security Operations Center (SOC) hosted at Level 3
data centers.
Proposition
The biggest proposition
from SecureSynergy is its promise to provide 'Always-On
Security'. The company feels that very few enterprises
in the world have the capabiliy, experience, and vision
to chalk out a strategic offering in this sphere. In
the 'Always-On Network' environment where even nanoseconds
count, SecureSynergy aims to offer the 'Pipe Security
Services'.
Let us now look
at some of the areas of business offered by the company.
Managed security services
SecureSynergy's
managed security services are available for a wide range
of information security platforms including anti-viruses,
patch management, firewalls, VPNs, IDS, authentication
systems, and wireless infrastructures. These are available
with a variety of coverage and response-time service
levels. Select customers are offered 24x7 security incident
escalation options.
Under the range
of managed security services, the company offers a number
of solutions.
VirusScan ASaP
- This is an online anti-virus service that provides
continuously updated protection against malicious code.
VirusScreen ASaP
- This is a managed scanning system that scans all e-mail
before it reaches a gateway (inbound) and as it leaves
a network (outbound); thus, preventing e-mail-borne
viruses from penetrating the network or infecting others
that receive mail sent from an organization.
Desktop Firewall
ASaP - This aims to be a complete firewall security
service that monitors, controls and logs a personal
computer's activity.
CyberCop ASaP -
This is a vulnerability assessment service that provides
detailed reports to help you quantify and qualify your
network's security threats, and proposes fixes that
can be implemented by your IT staff.
All SecureSynergy
malicious code protection solutions are are backed by
McCafee's AVIRT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team).
Security consulting
Maintaining effective
security is a continuous process that identifies assets,
analyzes threats, and defines acceptable levels of risk.
SecureSynergy aims
to provide a range of vendor-neutral consultancy services
in information security, business continuity, consumer
privacy, and information survivability.
The consultancy
services covers areas - from top-level policy, strategy
and review to business impact analysis and risk assessment,
specification of requirements and design of security,
consumer privacy, business solutions, including web
sites, firewalls, remote access, e-mail, encryption,
and intrusion detection.
A well-equipped
security simulation laboratory (Centre for Information
Security and Assurance Technologies - CISAT) allows
the company to evaluate technologies before rollout.
SecureSynergy Consulting
services include:
Security Evaluation
& Assessment Service: eValuate
Security Infrastructure
Enablement: eEnable
Strategic Security
Services: eExtend
Standards Compliance:
eIntegrity
Managed Security
Advisory: eContinuous
Comprehensive Security
Management Advisory: eSource
Security Skills
Transfer: eAware
Predictability management
The company believes
that predictability is an amalgamation of reliability,
availability, manageability, and scalability backed
by performance management. To ensure that your infrastructure
components function reliably, the company offers patch
management and data protection solutions.
The company’s backup
technologies aim to allow the enterprise the ability
to capture files that are open and in use during a backup
process.
SecureSynergy uses
a family of tools for enterprise network fault and performance
management.
There's also a
range of tools to monitor, validate, and evaluate the
network infrastructure operations from troubleshooting,
capacity planning, and SLA validation to real-time and
historical analysis.
A little training
SecureSynergy's
Centre for Information Security & Assurance Technologies,
offers learning opportunities through its own security
awareness courses and also in network security through
an educational collaboration with Network Associates'
Sniffer University.
So the next you
have to build a security setup in your enterprises,
it may be a good idea to outsource the needs to a service
provider, who has the technology and expertise. This
provider will have a ready set of services and solutions,
which it can provide at a fee, which is usually a fraction
of the cost of building a similar infrastructure from
scratch.
Soutiman Das Gupta
can be reached at soutimand@networkmagazineindia.com
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