Frontier guns for ISO 27001

BENGALURU, INDIA: After investing in a green data center and corporate office in Bengaluru, Frontier Business Systems is now applying for the ISO 27001 certification, which is a standard for information security management system (ISMS).

This certification replaces the erstwhile BS7799 standard and is its more evolved form covering management systems.

According to International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the objective of the ISO 27001 standard is to 'provide a model for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving an ISMS'. It defines its 'process approach' as the application of a system of processes within an organization, together with the identification and interactions of these processes, and their management.

“This certification will mean that the security processes and systems employed by Frontier conform to international standards and are as safe as it can get,” informed Ravi Verdes, CMD, Frontier Business Systems. “It basically means that as a company we have put in place adequate information security controls within the organization, especially since we will soon have our network operating center (NOC).”

After getting the ISO 27001 certification, Frontier will have to maintain it by getting an approved external agency to annually review its processes and apply for re-certification every three years. Besides this, it will have to undertake periodic internal audits to keep checking that effective implementation of controls are in place.

The company has just moved into a new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certified building, making it the biggest building in Bengaluru to have this certification. It has also started working on international deals for virtualization projects and has signed up with partners in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Bangladesh for the same.

“Right now we are identifying partners who we can work with for projects around virtualization, as we have all the necessary skill sets including, assessment, design, implementation and maintenance, which we call the virtual infrastructure health check of an organization. We have undertaken a project in Japan where we partnered with Datacraft to fulfill the client requirements,” revealed Verdes.

For the past couple of years, Frontier has been promoting the idea of virtualization and green data centers. It has signed up with most of the leading vendors in this space and this year is looking on leveraging its knowledge in virtualization to work on a wide of projects across a cross section of verticals.

“Virtualization in 2007 was estimated to be $2.2 billion market and is estimated to double this year. Currently only nine percent of the Indian IT infrastructure is virtualized as against 95 percent of Canada, which shows that there is lot of scope for this business in India,” Verdes said. To evangelize this concept, Frontier is rolling out roadshows for its clients in all the metros of the country.