(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Indian telecommunications giant Tata Communications (www.tatacommunications.com) has announced the global availability of its new Vulnerability Management Service, a key part of its Managed Security Services suite, which promises to improve security and help organizational compliance.
According to Tata’s Wednesday announcement, this new VMS offering is built on QualysGuard vulnerability management and compliance solutions developed by SaaS IT security risk and compliance management solutions provider Qualys (www.qualys.com).
Tata said its new service provides comprehensive reporting, discovery and mapping of IT assets, asset prioritization, vulnerability assessment, and remediation tracking. It automates the enterprise vulnerability management process and supports policy compliance initiatives.
“Business is dependent on the Internet, but increasingly sophisticated threats targeting Internet infrastructure have exploded at the same time that requirements for ensuring due compliance are increasing,” Tata Communications global managed services senior vice president John Landau said in a statement. “Corporate IT staff are in the unenviable position of having to lower operational risk, improve application availability and assure ongoing compliance to auditors – all in an environment where corporate budgets are tightening.”
As IT organizations increasingly need to comply with international regulatory, statutory, industry, and internal requirements including PCI DSS, SB1386, HIPPA, Sarbanes Oxley and the EU Data Privacy Directive, achieving and maintaining compliance means organizations have to continuously assess vulnerability and remediation procedures to ensure reasonable efforts are made to protect data and business processes.
Landau said Tata’s new VMS services take this costly and specialized burden away from companies. “The service allows customers both large and small to offload the grinding technical and operational aspects of vulnerability management while retaining control over decision-making and the actual remediation process,” he said.
Qualys’ SaaS vulnerability management solution, according to the company, is already a standard for more than 35 percent of Fortune 100 companies and its partnership with Tata promises to expand its services worldwide.
“Managing security risk and compliance initiatives is a challenge that organizations are struggling with on daily basis” Qualys chief executive officer Philippe Courtot said in a statement. “Our partnership with Tata Communications allows them to offer their global customer base a proven, scalable and cost effective solution to help these organizations improve their security and streamline compliance initiatives. We are pleased to partner with such a world class organization and look forward to working with them.”
