Today's business environment is marked by increased competition and the need for quicker and better information for decisions. In addition, the complexity of systems and the anonymity of the Internet present barriers to growth. Businesses and their customers need independent assurance that the information on which decisions are based is reliable.

To take these reliable decisions, Enterprises need to follow a Risk management process to address various security related issues. This underlying premise of enterprise risk management is that every entity exists in an enterprise to provide value for its stakeholders. Enterprise Risk assessment enables management to effectively deal with uncertainty and associated risk and opportunity, enhancing the capacity to build value. Enterprise security and Risk management helps ensure effective reporting and compliance with laws and regulations, and helps avoid damage to the entity’s reputation and associated consequences.

Best Practices driven proprietary framework provide effective Security and risk management solutions

Enterprise Security and Risk Management Services encompass those “operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This includes providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.

Sify Assure’s Security and Risk Management service is a holistic approach to protect information by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. The services include:

Sify Assure has created and evolved the Information Assurance Framework (IAF) (as depicted in below Figure) that contains mechanisms for effective IA program management. The IAF ensures integration among the various IA elements, integration with enterprise management infrastructure and integration with the organizational structure and processes - ensuring maximum effectiveness at minimum cost.

The IAF approaches IA as a life cycle of continuous process and technology improvements. The IAF is built on industry standards (such as ISO 27001, COBIT, NIST, OCTAVE, SAS 70, COSO, DRII etc) and consists of a set of modular solutions that fall into one of five areas: management, operational, personnel, physical and technical. Management establishes the IA strategy, Operations delineates the tactics that are appropriate for interpreting and implementing the strategy in the various IT enclaves and general areas across the environment; Personnel, Physical and Technical each provide the tools that deliver/enforce the tactics.

The IAF ensures that Information Assurance program is based on industry standards, is well structured and highly integrated, follows a phased implementation approach and continuously evolves with the changing environment.

Sify Assure: Assess
Highlight the security risks to the enterprise infrastructure
Sify Assure: Assess based on a systematic and structured assessment methodology, is conducted in order to highlight the security risks to the enterprise infrastructure. It comprises of a suite of services that enable an enterprise wide assessment of organization’s current security posture.

Sify Assure: Design
Design of robust and fail-safe systems based on client requirements
Sify Assure: Design comprises a structured suite of services that employs state-of-the-art structured analysis techniques to build robust and fail safe systems based on client explicit and implicit requirements.

Sify Assure: Deploy
Efficiently manage and continually enhance the security posture
Implementation of security controls limits exposure to litigation and theft, and also satisfies fiduciary responsibilities and meets customer expectations for privacy and confidentiality. The implementation and integration process can be a complex and resource intensive exercise. A comprehensive understanding of various systems, processes, and services is critical to the deployment of a successful security plan.

With accelerated technological change and shortened application development cycles, security and privacy staff is faced with the challenge of understanding and evaluating an expanding array of new and updated applications, services and technologies.

Sify Assure: Enhance
Efficiently manage and continually enhance the security posture
Sify Assure: Enhance consists of a suite of services that enable the client to effectively and efficiently manage their security program/infrastructure and continually enhance their security posture.