The CIO community today is faced with the ultimatum of managing IT Service delivery to internal customers, while dealing with ageing Infrastructures long due for a tech refresh. But perhaps the biggest issue on the plate of the CIOs is Enterprise Security, where change takes on a whole new meaning with the rapid acceleration of requirements and robust technologies. According to a study by HP, in 2013, the average enterprise experienced at least 100 hacking cases at a cost of $10.6 million;this is an increase by 26 percent from 2012.The study also states that companies who implement enabling security technologies reduced losses by nearly $4million. However many security providers today are not doing enough with regards to managing firewall and intrusion prevention management. Tackling these pain points with a unique shared on site vs offsite architecture, along with round the clock security vigilance is Mumbai headquartered Immunity Networks. The Immunity team has built its security solutions with the capability to offer regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, along with management of the client's network firewall. Led by CEO, Sumit Garg, the organization is known in the industry circles to be one of the first few companies to bring in data loss prevention to the corporate setup.

Deploying a Unique Methodology

The impact that Immunity provides can best be explained with how the Immunity team, led by Garg was able to ensure robust data loss prevention for business critical data for a large enterprise. Immunity was able to provide solutions that catered to each of the enterprise's business units while maintaining zero hindrance in business operations.

The multinational client with over 12000+ internal IT users wanted to revamp its outdated security setup which was limited to segregated and distributed endpoint security solutions. Immunity had to deal with multiple gateways, three different email platforms and several ERP units. Additionally the company also had to take into consideration the business models that had spread from captive setups to B2B to B2C models.

After a thorough assessment of the security landscape and understanding, Immunity took the approach of following the Industries best practices and in concurrence with the client took the initiatives to centralize the entire Security landscape with streamlined controls and unified policy definitions. "With strong support and backing of our experienced technocrats we were able to quickly establish a strong, robust and effective setup which covered almost all of the security setups," explains Garg.

The immunity team was able to deploy exhaustive protection solutions which included email and Web protection, Intrusion Prevention, Encryption, Data Loss Prevention, Server Security, Endpoint protection, Application control and a host of other deployments that range from Firewall solutions, Backup Solutions to a centralized Security Incident & Event Management system.

Such deployments are just a routine day's job for Immunity who has grown to become a true security partner for a host of corporates today. "We allow CIOs to focus on more demanding and business centric challenges while Immunity offloads the Security monitoring and Setup maintenance activities on its shoulders," explains Garg.

By deploying a shared on site vs off site architecture ensuring a round the clock security, the IT security provider ensures that the best in class infrastructure is provided to cover all known loopholes in the CIOs IT infrastructure. Today, the company has accomplished many projects in the areas of Data Loss Prevention, SIEM and IDM for clients such as Adani Group, BHEL, TCS and a host of other enterprises for their security deployments.

Fusing a Business Oriented Approach to IT Infrastructure

From a humble beginning in 2009, the company has quickly evolved into a multinational security player with presence and customers across India, Australia and Middle East. Although the expansion was fuelled by a passion inclined towards innovation, Garg soon realized that with the turning economy, coupled with clients having fundamental financial issues, it was crucial and quintessential for immunity todelve aggressively into cost effective, agile solutions while aiding a reduction in the client's financial outflow. The move that made the difference was with the advent of the Immunity Management Center. "The cost of gaining an effective and affordable security partner was a major challenge for almost all corporate and the biggest turning point was the initiation of the Immunity Management Center and managed security service which today supplements the needs of a midsize enterprise as well as any large corporate." explains Garg.


Perhaps the biggest move that the company takes pride is in fusing a business oriented approach with IT Infrastructure, Data Management and Security by leveraging technical intelligence and global experience. "Success is assured the very first time with the experienced manpower, Process and technologies around Immunity," says a proud Garg. The security provider has been actively engaging in a low cost engagement model to ensure that customers get the good returns using the MSS + IMC offerings. These factors, combined with an exhaustive coverage of the client needs from their security objective definition to Implementation to maintenance, ensure that the focus is on the complete lifecycle of the security technology.Certifications of ISO 9001, ISO 27001 along with a positive financial health rating from CRISIL are a testimony of the prowess of the organization.

However, along with a strong focus on the complete lifecycle, Immunity networks has countered the predicament of IT infringements by ensuring that high-end practices are followed to keep digital information unharmed. Forming the backbone of the organizations inclination towards high end services is the three pronged approach of people, processes and technology while engaging the customers for the effective up gradation of the security setup. This has helped the customers to not only identify the existing loop holes in the respective IT environment, but also engage as a true IT security partner to its customers by suggesting the best security technologies, process enhancements/modifications required in adopting the system. "We also strive to give the best team to run and maintain each system so the focus is only on the business on hand while the client does not need to fret about open security risks," points out Garg.


Staunch Partnerships and Strong Research

Apart from giving the best of solutions, Immunity believes that the main mantra that has brought the company so far is the staunch focus on the niche of security. The team strives to inculcate and identify the evolution of the security risks and possible options to mitigate such risks. "It is only a reverse approach to technology which starts from the risk to offerings is what we bring to the table," says Garg. The firm engages in strong partnerships with a host of well known names to provide the best of solutions to enterprises. Immunity is a specialized and certified Gold partner with Symantec, Sophos & Cyberoam and a bronze partner with checkpoint. The company has also been awarded, among a host of other awards, the best emerging partner of the year 2012 and top 100 Premier partner by Channel World, which is a testimony of Immunity's prowess in security solutions.

Being a security company, the management has ensured that there is a strong focus on the organized and process driven approach, even on internal process and minute details such as HR aspects. "We have a very enablement oriented culture for our internal employee which has lead us to ensure that the employees are always made available the best of the infrastructure, internal LAB environments and access to guided information," points out Garg. This culture of freedom of learning and aided technology adoption has led Immunity to be the early adopters to many challenging and complex technologies today. With the advent of newer security threats and the financial gains from the security breaches reaching all time high, Immunity networks continues to identify and plug the loop hole for all its customers much before the threat can cause any form of damage.

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