Today's organisations leverage ICT to stay competitive and conduct business online, providing seamless connectivity to employees, partners and customers, in the process exposing its systems, networks, applications and other information resources to growing information security threats from both inside and outside.
Due to business compulsions, it is becoming imperative for the businesses to deal with their stakeholders (employees, customer, partners, and other service providers) online, which is increasing the exposure of their business applications and data to the outside world.
This exposure is touching such alarming levels that any breach of security can result in direct financial losses, loss of sales and reduced competitive advantage, damage to the organizations' reputation & brand and business disruptions.
Information Security Challenges
With the technologies advancing, information security threats are becoming more sophisticated and damaging. Long gone are the days when hackers launched threats that were raucous, indiscriminate and randomly disruptive. Today's threats are the work of disgruntled employees, cyber criminals, or individuals working collaboratively motivated by profit. Key security challenges to today's business are summarised below
MQAssure™ is a centrally managed integrated AAAA security platform, consisting of a suite of security products that offers seamless integration to the business systems of organisations assuring foolproof Authentication, Authorisation, Auditing and Administration services to all the stakeholders, towards creating a clear legal security framework for conducting business online. This would be achieved by enabling organizations to deploy digital identities, such as user ID & passwords, and digital certificates (PKI), using smart card and/or USB tokens, and integrate the same tightly with their business applications. Alternatively, it can also leverage the strengths of existing, government driven, citizen ID initiatives as part of the integration approach.
It enables organisations to:
Strengthen the Authentication & Authorisation strategy for controlling access to the Devices, Networks and Applications
Ensure the Confidentiality and Integrity of Information Exchange
Create a clear legal framework for conducting the transactions with internal & external stakeholders
And, Gain and Sustain the Confidence of Stakeholders transacting online
