The Tech Mahindra Security Consulting Practice helps clients achieve regulatory compliance, protects the confidentiality, integrity and availability of business information and provides them with secure business environments. Our Consulting services help companies understand corporate security requirements, navigate the maze of diverse regulations, identify security vulnerabilities, defend against and respond to attacks, reduce risk, and meet the security compliance requirements of the business and the industry.

Tech Mahindra’s Security Consulting practice follows a partnership approach with its clients through all phases of their security journey. Right from consulting, program management, strategy, implementation to security operations to ensure that the clients not only devise the best security framework but realise its implementation rapidly and cost-effectively.

The practice has successfully introduced a range of innovative services and has been awarded the “Market Leadership Award for Security Consulting in Next Generation Applications and Networks-2006” by Frost & Sullivan. Today, Tech Mahindra is expanding information security in new areas and is also a member of leading security forums and bodies internationally.

Tech Mahindra specialises in providing an integrated end-to-end security service, deftly managing the process and technology components of security. Through our intrinsic capability we deliver integrated and specialised services that address all the security areas of application security, network and system security, security governance and compliance, business continuity, disaster recovery , identity and access management.

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The Security Practice delivery model covers all the stages in the security lifecycle to ensure that our client’s security posture is baselined against the best practices, implemented as per design and enhanced with business growth. The five stage model is diagrammatically illustrated below.

Our consulting framework comprises of a repository of the best in class security controls, processes like - ISO 2001, COBIT, SSE-CMM, OSSTMM, PAS 56 and other industry best practices. We have made significant investments in developing methodologies and proprietary tools to facilitate consistent and high quality deliverables by our consultants. As these standardized methodologies break down into detailed activities with corresponding deliverables, clarity is imparted to the customer, at the start of the security journey.

Over the years, Tech Mahindra has mastered the spilt shore model to provide a cost effective solution to its customers. We have identified activities that can be executed from offshore that helps in bringing cost efficiency. Our dedicated work centres & laboratories handle remote vulnerability assessment, authentication, digital rights management and security testing.

Integrated services are delivered by combining the capabilities of our eight security sub practices which specialise in developing expertise and delivering industry leading service propositions in their respective areas. Tech Mahindra’s Security Sub-practices are listed below:

• Secure Software Engineering
• Application Security
• Network and System Security
• Security Testing
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Identity and Access Management
• Security Governance and Policies
• Financial and Regulatory Compliance
• Managed Security Services

iPolicy Network Security

iPolicy Networks, is a leading integrated Network Security product company acquired by Tech Mahindra in January 2007.

iPolicy provides next-generation, carrier-grade integrated network security solutions for enterprises and service providers. The capabilities of iPolicy have enabled Tech Mahindra to enhance its security service offerings, thus enabling it to offer end- to-end security services to its customers; encompassing security consulting services, network security products and managed security services from its security operations centre.

iPolicy Networks' Integrated Security Appliance - the Intrusion Prevention Firewall is an easy to deploy appliance, which facilitates enforcement of security policies for multiple security functions on network traffic at very high speeds. Utilizing ‘application aware’ and deep traffic inspection architecture, our appliances have enabled customers to implement robust security policies to safeguard their networks from threats in network traffic at reduced total cost of ownership that would otherwise have required significant investments into multiple products/solutions.

The iPolicy Intrusion Prevention Firewall family supports throughput from 100 Mb/second for iPolicy 2000 series to 6 Gb/second for iPolicy 5000 series appliances. All iPolicy Intrusion Prevention Firewalls are managed by iPolicy Networks' managementThe iPolicy Security Manager, or, ISM is a single-window security management software for configuration, management and monitoring of the iPolicy Intrusion Prevention Firewalls software - ISM.

The Intrusion Prevention Firewall supports Firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, URL Filtering, Inline-Antivirus , Real-time Vulnerability Correlation, Dynamic Application Detection, Behavioral Worm Detection. Upgrading to newer security functionality with iPolicy Networks' appliances do not require any forklift upgrades; instead, the existing Intrusion Prevention Firewall can be "license upgraded" to support newer security functionality.

For more information please visit www.ipolicynetworks.com