Banking & Finance

While the financial institutions leverage technology to enhance the value of their service offerings and improve efficiency and effectiveness of their operations, they are exposed to significant risks on account of security and integrity of sensitive information. Competitive pressures to roll out new business applications and technology initiatives in very compressed timeframes to offer more and more value-added services intensifies the management challenge to ensure that adequate strategic assessment, risk analysis and security reviews are conducted prior to implementing new initiatives.

This has resulted in heightened industry awareness and concern, accompanied by increased regulatory scrutiny of the information risk assessment of financial institutions, mitigation and management systems. It is imperative that financial institutions recognize, address and manage information security risks in a prudent manner. Thus, information security management becomes an integral part of the financial institution's overall enterprise risk management framework.

How can Securegenius Help?

We assist financial institutions in developing world-class security governance structure and information risk management processes appropriate for their individual risk profile, operational structure and corporate governance culture, as well as in conformance with the specific information risk management requirements from leading international standards and regulations such as BS 7799/ISO 27001, ITIL, COBIT, Guidelines amongst others.

Telecom

The Telecom industry is currently characterized by significant challenges such as changing customer needs, industry restructuring and consolidation, fierce competition, transformational innovation, and convergence. Availability of increased bandwidth is changing the way in which telecom operators conduct business, as revenue streams for information and data transfer gain greater importance. Increased bandwidth means new and larger applications and service offerings such as picture messaging, video, games, transactional capability and e-billing. Industry players are gearing up to harness the potential of converging technology, networks, devices and content to develop multimedia services and solutions of ever-increasing sophistication. IT is at the core of telecom operations, particularly in IT-enabled functionality provided for billing and customer care. From quickly yet securely integrating new services from partner providers, to protecting the billing and personal information of their customers, security is a primary consideration of all telecom service providers. Information security threats to the operators and service providers in the telecom industry could adversely affect the firms on account of:

• 1.  Denial or disruption of service to customers
• 2.  Unauthorized monitoring and disclosure of sensitive customer and business information
• 3.  Identifying vulnerabilities that may be difficult or impossible to detect with automated network or application vulnerability scanning software
• 4.  Unauthorized modification of user or network information and network services leading to unreliable services to customers
• 5.  Revenue loss through fraud and unauthorized services-revenues leakag
• 6. Enhancing and streamlining information risk management capabilities can provide significant business and competitive advantages.

How Securegenius Can Offer Value?

Effective information risk management in a rapidly evolving telecom environment is indeed a challenging task. Telecom carriers and service providers need to take a proactive approach to integrating information security as a core component of their enterprise operations and initiatives, to provide for the stability, availability and resiliency required for successful operations, and to protect their reputation, customers and revenues.

Securegenius has the industry-specific experience, knowledge and technology skills to assist you in designing and implementing a world-class security governance structure and security management system in your organization that is appropriate for your individual risk profile, operational structure and enterprise risk management culture, as well as in conformance with the specific information risk management requirements from leading international standards and regulations such as BS 7799/ISO 27001, ITIL and COBIT amongst others.

Healthcare

As an organization within the healthcare industry, the challenge in information is complex as you are transmitting critical payment, personal and research data across your network as well as sharing information with hospitals, other healthcare providers, research groups, insurance companies, partners and suppliers. As an information security breach in your industry immediately equates to enormous legal liabilities, you need to ensure you are doing everything you can to secure your organizational reputation.

How Securegenius Can Offer Value?

With its expertise in this industry with global clients, Securegenius will assess and plan around your greatest security priorities, and develop a security plan that will focus on your individual business needs, such as:

• • Creating and implementing an information security program that meets your specific compliance needs and goals.
• • Assessing vulnerabilities, prioritizing threats and improving your information security infrastructure - with the people, technologies and budgets you have in place.
• • Certifying your information security practice - from enterprise to application.

IT and BPO

Information Security and Data Privacy concerns are paramount as organizations outsource their IT Services and business processes, especially to offshore service providers. As sensitive information such as financial, insurance, medical and personal is accessed by offshore outsourcing service providers, there is a growing concern about the manner in which it is being collected, stored and utilized. Organizations demand a high level of information security controls from their outsourcing service providers and are incorporating stringent provisions for information security in their contractual agreements with service providers, as the consequences of an information security breach could lead to business harm and legal liability.

This is not merely a matter of competitive advantage for service providers in the BPO and IT/ITES industry. Service providers could be liable under various security, privacy, trade secret and copyright laws in case of breaches such as unauthorized disclosure of financial information, release of maliciously modified financial information, and disclosure of customer information, for example, a person's financial status, health condition or employment. These types of regulatory, legal, statutory and contractual requirements are not limited to actions by the service provider alone. The organization that has outsourced its services can be liable for information security breaches by the service provider and the organization suffers equally in case of such breaches by its own staff or by service provider personnel.

How Securegenius Can Offer Value?

We can assist companies in the BPO and IT/ITES industry in developing and implementing world-class security governance structure and risk management processes that will effectively alleviate the perceived risks of outsourcing amongst its customer base.

Securegenius has the industry-specific experience, knowledge and technology skills to assist you in designing and implementing a security management system in your organization that is in conformance with the specific information risk management requirements from leading international standards and regulations such as BS 7799/ISO 27001, ITIL, COBIT and client-specific security policies and standards.

Manufacturing

designs, shipping and fulfillment, inventory and your customers, is being transferred. With a wide network of outsourcers, and a critical link to supply chains of many other industries, the systems are streamlined to better integrate front-end and back-end systems. Now, you need to ensure you are meeting your regulations, own information security standards and those of your partners.

The open connectivity standards being deployed on the plant floors and in the extended enterprise are increasingly web-based and the industrial automation systems are seldom security-aware. Anyone with access to control network and who has the proper programming package can perform unauthorized operations.

Further more, disruptions to production and processes, power and communications systems as well as exposure to human safety and environmental risks are a few among the many threats which you would face in this industry. Marketing plans, customer purchase pattern, product formulae and supplier are some of the proprietary information, which differentiates a manufacturing firm from its competitor. If the confidentiality of such information is not maintained, firms will find it difficult to compete.

How can Securegenius help?

designs, shipping and fulfillment, inventory and your customers, is being transferred. With a wide network of outsourcers, and a critical link to supply chains of many other industries, the systems are streamlined to better integrate front-end and back-end systems. Now, you need to ensure you are meeting your regulations, own information security standards and those of your partners.

• • Creating and implementing an information security program that meets your specific organizational needs and goals.
• • Assessing your vulnerabilities, and finding gaps and redundancies in information security practices.
• • Verifying the information security strength of your outsourcers, partners, and vendors.
• • Efficiently managing your business and industry compliance.
• • Improving your ability to offer new services by securing your applications.

Securegenius has the industry-specific experience, knowledge and technology skills to assist you in designing and implementing a security governance structure in your organization that is in conformance with leading international standards such as BS 7799/ISO 27001, ITIL, COBIT and specific manufacturing sector best practices.

Energy and Process

A breach of information security within your organization has widespread implications - regardless of whether the incident was the result of a malicious act, negligence, or simply an accident. For this reason, energy and utility organizations worldwide have been subjected to greater scrutiny of their information security practices.

How can Securegenius help?

Securegenius has helped businesses worldwide become more secure using the people, technology and budgets they already have in place. We will assess and plan around your greatest security priorities, and develop a security plan that will focus on your individual business needs, such as:

• • Building an information security plan and infrastructure that meets your specific compliance needs.
• • Identifying critical assets and access points to your data across your organization.
• • Assessing your vulnerabilities, and finding gaps and redundancies in information security practices.
• • Certifying your information security - from enterprise to application.
• • Prioritizing threats, risks and assets of your organization.
• • Demonstrating ongoing compliance.
• • Establishing a proactive response plan in the event your organization is breached