Aujas Networks, a cybersecurity firm whose customers include Japanese financial services group Mitsubishi UFJ and a domestic national identity programme, has opened a ‘Security Operations Centre’ that will help detect and respond to complex threats in real time.
The Bengaluru-based facility would host a team of certified security professionals who would scan clients’ networks for suspicious behaviour round-the-clock. Threat data collected from the external landscape would be combined with information to identify risks and recommend rule changes to pre-empt future attacks.
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) reports that in 2017 more than 53,000 cybersecurity incidents were observed: these include phishing, website intrusions, ransomware and denial of service attacks.
“The key question is do you want your security teams to play on the back foot and wait for malicious attacks or should they start playing on the front foot and stop an attack before it happens,” Srinivas Rao, co-founder and CEO of Aujas, said on Tuesday. Citing an example of a bank or an insurance services provider, Mr. Rao said a network breach could potentially endanger a customer’s assets as well as personal data and business reputation.
“Our data centre is entirely in India, so data residency issues are not there,” said Chandra Prakash Suryawanshi, SVP and Head, India and APAC, Aujas. “Each customer is actually able to see all the consoles, services, trends and metrics.”
Mr. Rao of Aujas said more than 70% of security incidents are reported by third parties, often as late as 6-9 months after the event. He said the data signifies that enterprises today have weak monitoring capabilities driven by detecting and alerting familiar attacks. This leaves a window of vulnerability which malicious agents can easily and repeatedly exploit.
