BANGALORE, INDIA: Netmagic Solutions, India's leading carrier-neutral Managed IT Services provider today announced its launch of proactive security testing offering (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing or VAPT) powered by its partner iViZ Security. Despite considerable investments, companies find it challenging to manage information security to protect themselves from hackers today.

Discovery of over 7000 new vulnerabilities in 2008 makes this problem even more severe. Netmagic helps companies solve this critical problem by strengthening its security services with its new proactive security testing offering for networks and applications. With this, Netmagic positions itself as an end-to-end managed solution provider across hosting, infrastructure management and security services.

Sharad Sanghi, CEO and MD of Netmagic Solutions said, "Previously security measures like firewall management and intrusion detection systems management were deemed sufficient. However some of the recent high profile security breaches despite considerable defensive security measures demonstrate that it is no longer the case today. The top three concerns for organizations today are ensuring business continuity to prevent disruption of critical IT assets, managing the ever growing compliance requirements like PCI, ISO, HIPAA and protecting brand image by ensuring safety of their application and confidential customer data. These issues can be effectively managed only when companies conduct regular proactive security testing to find the weaknesses and fix them before a hacker does.  I am happy that our partnership with iViZ Security helps us to provide this unique solution to our customers".

iViZ Security is the industry's first on-demand (SaaS based),  automated Penetration Testing (Ethical Hacking) for proactive security audit risk management and compliance for standards such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA or ISO 27001. The Software-as-a-Service model provides anytime, anywhere security testing capability to customers and eliminates the pain associated with the conventional manual security testing which is time-intensive, expensive and not comprehensive.

Explaining the technology Bikash Barai, CEO of iViZ said"Penetration testing also known as Ethical Testing, simulates real attack on a system in a safe way to find out the vulnerabilities. Companies will know exactly what an attacker can see, giving them a deeper understanding of the possible attack scenarios, its real business impact and most importantly how to safeguard from them even before such an attack happens".