RSA opens center in Bangalore

BANGALORE: RSA Security, now a part of EMC, today inaugurated a 40,000 sq. feet development center in Bangalore.

With this new facility, EMC expects its total headcount in India to exceed 3200 in 2010.

The Development Center, presently with 35 people, is looking to expand to 200 people by next year-end. Talking at the inaugural function, Art Coviello, executive vice president, EMC Corporation and president, RSA, Security Division of EMC, said, “ The development center will develop a common security platform (CSP) to secure the huge EMC data and information. As cyber criminals are ever increasing and there is a need to check the same. RSA security, leading in the identity and access management and encryption space has the ability to track the cyber crimes and protect the EMC data.”

The new center will take on full lifecycle development for RSA’s identity and access management product lines, including engineering, support and maintenance functions.

Sanjay Vir Singh, IPS-DIG economic Offences, Corps of Detectives, said that Cybercrime, which registered four cases in 2001 in India, has now grown to more than 100 cases a year now. The cases registered are mainly on identity theft of credit cards, spam mails, cyber stocking and obscene mails. Seventy per cent of the total crime is on obscene mails. In cases of identity theft, the man who uses the credit card is seldom caught since he sells it to others.

“Preventive measures are very important than detection of such crimes. Hence, RSA Security and EMC play a important role in assisting to curb the cyber crimes,” Singh added.

With the establishment of a Cybercrime Lab in Bangalore, Singh expressed hope on creating a good relation with the security companies. He said that RSA Security would help to train the police and judges in Cybercrime Lab to and also develop products for them to track frauds related to internet banking and obscene mails.



Extending support to the Lab, Coviello said that according to a recent Gartner report only one in 700 criminals are ever caught. Hence the Law and Enforcement cooperation is very much needed to develop the product and services, and to enforce the same to bring about security.

He said that the company is looking at tying-up with internet service providers and enforcing agencies to first shut off the phishing IP address and then move to catch the culprit.

Sanjay Mirchandani, senior vice president, Emerging markets and International Development, EMC, said, “EMC has committed to invest more than $500 million in India by 2010. The new development center will provide customers seamless securities allowing them to store, protect, optimize and leverage their information for competitive advantage.”

B V Naidu, director, Software Techonology Parks of India, was also present.

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