The Hindu Business Line : UK firm unveils anti-terror tool; ties up with Cygnus

Mr Gary Ling, Managing Director, ROIsure Ltd, giving a presentation to media with Mr O.R.S. Rao, Head of Cygnus Business Consulting and Research, in Hyderabad on Tuesday. - - A. Roy Chowdhury

Hyderabad , Oct. 5

ROISURE Ltd, a UK-based company, has announced the launch of its flagship service — terrorSURE, an online diagnostic and solution system for threat and vulnerability assessment in India.

The UK company offers value-added knowledge inputs online to the global class of managers and organisations. The product comes three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and amid the ongoing extremist violence in the North Eastern parts of the country.

To market it in the Indian subcontinent, ROIsure has tied up with Cygnus Business Consulting and Research (Cygnus), the Hyderabad-based global knowledge services organisation, and also to obtain knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) needs from the Indian company.

Announcing this here on Tuesday, the ROIsure Managing Director, Mr Gary Ling, said terrorSURE offers a customised online assessment tools driven by expert diagnostic questioning that generates automated online reports, which prioritise practical and comprehensive steps to protect people and commercial interests.

According to the Cygnus Head, Mr O. R. S. Rao, terrorSURE delivers industry and country management reports developed by Cygnus with additional security and terrorist risk assessment contributions written by global terrorism experts at Hazard Management Solutions Ltd.

Mr Ling was of the view that the target market for terrorSURE in India would be multinational, multi-location, business and Government organisations employing more than 1,000 people with a turnover greater than Rs 150 crore.

Stating that governments across the globe have raised the levels of terrorism awareness, Mr Ling said the service of ROIsure would ensure that employees of commercial enterprises feel as though their organisations were responding to this. "We expect that terrorSURE develops a growing community of awareness, which dispels unjustifiable fears and provides businesses with a record of the actions that they have taken to protect employees from terrorist threats."

Stating that the global market for information services currently stands at $300 billion, with over 10 per cent of high-value added segment consisting of business research and analysis, Mr Rao said "The KPO services segment is expected to witness a ten-fold increase in the next five years to reach $20 billion from about $2 billion in 2003."