Microland offers Fortress-Security Lifecycle services

NEW DELHI: Microland is offering a new range of services named Fortress

Security Lifecycle services. These security services are time-tested and well

researched documented practices to significantly enhance IT infrastructure

security. It caters to the enterprise, web and integrated environments that are

aligned with international security standards like BS 7799, ISO 17799 and CobiT.

It is a solution-oriented approach with a combination of processes and

technology knowledge that spans the entire technology life cycle like planning,

deploying, managing and reviewing.

With most businesses moving to outsourcing the need for a standards is fast

becoming mandatory. In fact standards have become an evaluator of quality. Some

features include a comprehensive security audit, incident detection &

forensics, and security asset and architecture management among others.

The service provided by Microland also has an updating feature like policy

and compliance checks and vulnerability tracks. Targeted at CSO's and CTO's the

service will help them deploy security measures and checks effectively with the

security life cycle service. Security needs changes

because of changing processor and technology with standards themselves

changing.

According to PwC 55 per cent of security threats in the world are from

internal and authorized users while only 35per cent are unknown with 59per cent

attacks on NT and 29per cent on Linux systems. The PwC report states that most

end-users make the common mistake of opening unsolicited mails posing the

greatest security threats while 95per cent of organizations make the mistake of

relying primarily on firewalls. Security concerns according to the report is not

with technology but with people and their level of awareness.