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Global tax and assurance advisory EY has launched its first managed security operations centre at its facility at the Kinfra Film and Video Park here in Thiruvananthapuram.
It is designed to meet cyber security needs of clients by predicting threat through advanced data analytics. EY proposes to invest Rs 128 crore here in five years and increase the cyber security workforce six-fold to 1,200.
LACKING SKILLS
“The question is not if your company will be breached, or even when. More than likely, it has already happened,” says Paul van Kessel, Global Risk Leader, EY.
Clients usually do not have the necessary skills or capacity to investigate cyber attacks in an efficient manner.
EY’s Global Information Security Survey 2014 revealed that 56 per cent of organisations are unlikely to detect a sophisticated attack.
A similar number lack the skilled resources to handle them. The new facility here will offer EY clients onsite and offsite skills to help predict and prevent cyber attacks.
REMOTE ANALYSTS
Onsite, the monitoring analysts will work closely with IT staff of clients during business hours. These resources will be regionally located at client premises anywhere in the world.
The resources are drawn from EY’s advanced security centre, a team that has been delivering a range of cyber security services to clients for the last 15 years.
The onsite resources will be complemented by a team of remote analysts that provides service 24X7 and 365 days a year from the new Thiruvananthapuram facility.
ANTICIPATING ATTACKS
“Remote monitoring from here with onsite guidance will allow us to work closely with the client and more deeply investigate incident, protecting them now and helping then anticipate attacks well into the future,” says van Kessel.
According to Ken Allan, Global Information Security Leader, EY, the mission is to provide organisations with mature detection and response capability.
This will be designed to mitigate threats from advanced, interactive attackers that put their critical business assets at risk, he added.
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