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Aleph Tav Technologies: Armoring Information Security Domain through Reliable & Cost-Effective Services

Bound by the growing realization of the cyber network security breaches and espionage, Indian enterprises are indeed striding towards espousing robust security risk mitigation technologies. But, are their efforts really effective? While many organizations claim an affirmative node, Joseph Martin – a dynamic business professional and the CEO of Aleph Tav Technologies Pvt. Ltd. – has a different case to cite. “In a quest to address the perimeter security of a leading healthcare organization, we, as an information security solutions provider, could easily get into their systems, mission-critical activities and even the sensitive data, as a third party. The case was similar with many mobile apps, allegedly secure wallets and retail sector,” he said. Thus, with the same vision to steer enterprises towards a secured future, he founded AlephTav Technologies, which has today emerged into a one-stop specialized service epicenter in the domain that guarantees flexibility, convenience, scalability and cost-optimization.

Sufficing the dire security needs of its clients with a team of dedicated certified specialists, this year-old Chennai-based security testing service provider has been proactive in decking up the businesses with its wide range of systems, right from the traditional enterprise-level security model to the advanced IoT security and SCADA & industrial control platforms. Unlike others who run behind sales and promotions to reap-in credibility, Aleph Tav Technologies has established itself as a fulcrum of knowledge threat-awareness movement through its knowledge dissemination channel, thereby helping businesses derive value and the best RoIs.

Understanding the repercussions of a security breach on SMBs, the company has launched a self-sustained 24×7 managed security suite that deploys industry’s best tools and extensive, yet budget-friendly and efficient solutions. The portfolio provides capabilities like dynamic SIEM solution, constant security status monitoring, round-the-clock threat discovery and streamlining, threat analysis and behavioral monitoring. “We are also a certified implementation and service provider of products of AlienVault, a leading Unified Security Management provider and rated as one of the visionaries in SIEM space (by Gartner Magic quadrant),” adds Joseph. In addition, Aleph Tav Technologies is also widely recognized for its on-demand and compliance management solutions.

The Team

Investing ample time in bringing specialized talents onboard has transformed into a canopy for 25+ elites who are hand-picked from leading institutions. The employees are groomed with a culture that fosters professional integrity, transparency and freedom to grow. Working in a field which demands up-to-date knowledge, the company endorses many cross-functional and cross-training sessions, while it also invests in sponsoring leading conferences; the recent being InCyCon-2015 with National Cyber Defense research Centre. Here, every employee celebrates a win, whether it is their own or someone else’s. According to Betty Joseph, these attributes has pushed them to enjoy their work and proffer the best.

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Is your security turning into shelfware?

Is your security turning into shelfware?

When practically everyone seemed to point the accusatory finger at Target for its alleged inattention to malware alerts, we’ve got to admit that a whole lot of us secretly empathized with the retail giant. After all, it was what we can all agree to call, a security shelfware risk that could happen to anyone, well, anyone who purchased a purportedly plug-and-play technology and believed they were good to go.

Placebo is a serious threat to security management. It can be dangerously easy to give in to the sense of security that comes with the deployment of every new security technology. As we learned from the Target data breach incident, a lot could go wrong when your organization lacks the right resources to empirically assess the publicized features of a security implement – both to assay its highest benefits and to understand precisely how it functions.

Small and medium organizations are the hardest hit by security shelfware because they don’t enjoy the same economies of scale that larger companies do and thus face the risk of greater misspending on a per user basis. But, no matter the size of their business, IT teams are overwhelmed with challenges in coping with exposure to increasingly complex threats – a situation that can only get worse with an uncertain security posture and unaccounted costs.

How to be sure that your investment in security implements is being fully utilized?

Organizations aren’t breached because they fail to invest in security, but evidently because they have been doing it wrong.

Whether you purchased a security product solely to satisfy a compliance or regulatory requirement or are under-resourced to utilize its advanced features, it may be easy to ignore the unrealized ROI but you have got to face the fact that your data breach liability is dramatically increasing while you have the under-optimized security software deployed.

Balancing ease of management and visibility

Trustwave and Osterman Research Inc. published a report last year that highlighted the issue of underutilized security software. Every reason behind the increase in unrealized ROI accentuated in the report points to a central issue – the dearth of expertise and time to manage and maneuver security technologies.

Security implements like IDS and SIEM often end up gathering dust because we make the mistake of accepting more than our in-house IT teams can handle. Or, we take for it for granted when a vendor claims his product is all set from the word go, assuming it is at its full potential. In reality, these security solutions work best when handled by engineers with in-depth functional knowledge.

The secret to getting it right is ensuring that the out-of-box functionality the vendor advertised is practicable in your environment. This is typically where most of us make the wrong call. We fail to address fundamental imperatives like, “What can this software do for my enterprise?” Or, “I hear this is a great product but how can I get the most value from it? How do I know if this is what my business needs and whether it’s working fine?”

This makes the case for why managed security can help an organization whose security priorities are constantly shifting and deployment never gets completed properly. Instead of starting with a purchase and then looking for resources to make it operational, it makes more sense to try a solution that has expertise and capabilities coalesced.

Three important advantages of having dedicated security personnel handle security software deployment, optimization, validation and maintenance:

• Gauging functional effectiveness of the deployment
• Verifying that defense level is optimal
• Tracking value and outcomes

While managed security can help reduce wasteful spending, it is not easy to give it your unbridled trust unless the provider prioritizes keeping you ahead of the storm through insightful reporting and status monitoring. Easy manageability does not warrant compromise on visibility. Ensuring that communication channels are active and open is one of the most definitive indicators of the proactive ongoing support that an MSSP should provide.  

Always insist on maintaining an up-to-date asset inventory and policy management plan to support audit trails and vendor management reviews.

Don’t spend money to lose more. It pays to seek objective perspectives on security software, the vendor and the service offering from reliable sources.

But nothing helps calculative spending like an operational test run does.

That’s why the 24×7 Managed Security Suite is now available on a 15-day trial period.

Our services include: Ethical Hacking, Managed Security Services, Application Security, Network Security, Security Testing, Enterprise Security, Security for IoT, SCADA Security, Digital Forensics