Industries: The new sitting ducks for cyber-attackers
Sairaj Iyer In these days of automation, claiming complete safety is foolishness. The open world-wide internet does not bestow that pretention to anybody more so to those offices of power that are vulnerable to cyber-attacks of all kinds. India recently witnessed two cyber-attacks where hackers could access valuable data stored in high-profile nationalized banks. It is rumored that post those cyber-attacks, fake trade documents were made, to raise money or facilitate large illegal deals abroad. Without any further delay, the Indian Prime Minister’s office signed MoU’s with the global internet security provider Kaspersky. According to Vicente Diaz, Kaspersky’s Principal Security Analyst based in Barcelona, we are living in a world of APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) and ransomware. In fact, digital espionage ...
TCS, Symantec to jointly provide analytic-driven security services
The Dollar Business Bureau Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has partnered with Symantec Corporation to provide analytic driven security services to its global customers. “The partnership will enable customers to leverage business opportunities, reduce costs and improved security through the combination of TCS’ security industry experience with Symantec’s security technologies,” said TCS in a statement on Friday. As part of the agreement, TCS and Symantec will jointly develop industry standards joint offerings and offer customers a unique, simplified, anywhere, anytime services through Symantec’s product suite. The partnership will also enable them to offer next-gen security management services and enterprise security solutions in forms of data protection, datacenter, cloud security and threat intelligence. Symantec Corporation is the world’s largest cyber security company, with ...
