Frontier -Information Security Consulting

Frontier's Information Security Consulting Team helps organizations understand Information Security, indentify vulnerabilities, assess and mitigate risk and meet the compliance requirements of business.

Information Security Challenges

Information exists in bits and bytes. Unlike a physical and tangible asset, it is not visible or identifiable as a discrete asset. This poses a big challenge to detection of any information security vulnerabilities. It also could engender a false sense of security, since the organization could continue to use data that a hacker may have accessed and compromised.

There has been a growing appreciation of these challenges in keeping information secure. Today mature organizations treat Information Security as an enterprise and business issue rather than a technical concern.

Some of the reasons for elevating information security to a top management concern are :

Emergence of security breaches motivated by financial gain. For example, Credit Card and banking
data theft witnessed from call centers and BPO firms over the last few years
Client apprehensions about business damage if there is a compromise of privacy or identity theft.
This is particularly true of BPO organizations, where it is critical to maintain and demonstrate strong
confidentiality processes
Increased security risk on account of suppliers, vendors and partners sharing a common network
and information base
Risk of Competitive intelligence theft, as recently seen in the case of a leading Indian telecom
company
Escalating incidents of malicious insider activities
Discontented ex-employees compromising security by exploiting ineffective internal systems and
processes

Information Security - A Business requirement

Several organizations have adopted Information Security Governance as a holistic approach towards systematic enterprise risk management. This helps ensure that information security is aligned with the company's strategic goals and meets the organizational objectives.