As the global economy becomes more digital, an increasing number of businesses are opting for integrated functionalities linked via highly advanced, sophisticated, and cost-effective cyber-networks powered by cloud technologies. In order to make the foundational cloud infrastructure simple, seamless, feasible, scalable, affordable, power-efficient, and qualitative, the most important aspects of connectional and network safety, and cybersecurity, must also be addressed.
Since its inception, Cyberworld has been a target for opportunistic cybercriminals, who have directed their attacks and focused their attention over the years on local and global enterprises, companies, corporates, industries, and professionals in order to achieve their own nefarious motives. With advanced technologies and sophisticated techniques at their disposal, these dark elements pose a serious threat to organizations all over the world that have become completely reliant on cloud connectivity.
A threat may occur and cause mayhem before any organization can develop or improve its digital immunity. Furthermore, given the level and sophistication of the criminal elements’ offensiveness, that cloud security solution may not be adequate or defensive enough.
One could see these scenarios playing aplenty before and in the aftermath of the pandemic. In fact, in the post-pandemic wave of the fourth industrial revolution, when digitalization has engulfed the entire global industry and every sphere of human affairs, organizations can only ensure their cloud invincibility by encapsulating themselves in the protective shield provided by Cymune––the digital nectar required for eternally indestructible cloud and cyber immunity.
Srikanth M, CTO, reveals that the Founder and President Mr Uttam Majumdar, founded Locuz; one of the predecessor companies of Cymune; about two decades ago and continues to lead its management team with his clear and strategic vision and “Cyber Security has always been in our DNA.”
Cymunize Your Enterprise
According to Srikanth, as businesses go digital, cyber security takes on new meaning. The more an enterprise moves toward digital transformation, the more diverse the threat landscape becomes. While the widespread use of technology has enabled businesses to do more and achieve more, it has also resulted in a significant increase in cybercrime. The possibilities for hackers have grown exponentially, as have the potential rewards.
Today, information security is a priority with public ramifications that is not limited to the IT department. Businesses require new capabilities to remain secure, which requires not only a significant amount of bandwidth to maintain the most secure security posture but also poses a significant risk to their rate of innovation. Thus, relying on Security Experts is one method for addressing the security threat that they face in today’s rapidly changing world.
“At Cymune, we bridge the visible and invisible Cyber Security gaps for businesses aspiring to be Digital through an unwavering commitment to innovation,” he says, adding, “We approach cybersecurity from the inside out, effectively mitigating risk and protecting your business interests.”
He goes on to say that their approach entails broadly assessing three major things across the enterprise’s ‘Core Domain’ areas:
- Inherent Risk
- Process Maturity
- Operational Effectiveness
According to Srikanth, organizations are subject to increasing amounts of corporate and regulatory requirements to demonstrate that they are appropriately managing and protecting their information, while threats from all directions, including organized crime, nation-states, and activists, are growing in complexity and volume.
Evolving threats, increased compliance risks, and resource constraints necessitate a fresh approach. To combat these cyber threats, one must adopt a hacker mindset. “And we’ve arrived at this mindset after gaining extensive capabilities and experience over the years,” says Srikanth while ensuring that their tools, processes, and people are among the best in the industry, with collective knowledge of handling millions of incidents.
Understanding the Security Solutions Landscape
“We understand the challenges our clients face every day,” he adds, “because many of our people have sat on the other side of the table.” They assist businesses in combating cybercrime, protecting patented data, and reducing security risks. With the assistance of Cymune’s team of security experts and technologists, operations specialists, researchers, and ethical hackers, “Our goal is always to help you transform your business by removing any security barriers,” he states.
Cymune improves your business operations by:
- Leveraging our industry-wide security experience;
- Expertise in cutting-edge security technology; and
- An extensive portfolio of security services.
They are the experts born out of LOCUZ, with two decades of experience leading several transitions. They have immersed themselves extensively in core datacenter related technologies over the last two decades, solving any and all Infrastructure challenges that Cymune’s clients have faced.
The Supreme Cyber-Protector
With decades of experience in the cyber security industry, the executive leadership team led by Srikanth is well-equipped and eager to assist clients with any and all security-related challenges. “Our goal in forming Cymune was to have a single-minded focus on delivering the latest innovations in security that make your business Secure and Sustainable,” Srikanth explains.
Srikanth is a cyber-security executive with more than two decades of experience developing, leading, and managing information security, business continuity, risk management, and data privacy programs.
He has extensive experience in people and process management and has created business-oriented security programs that are innovative, challenging, agile, and cost-conscious.
He specializes in reducing the organization’s overall technology risk exposure. To that end, he has put in place strong controls that use people, processes, and technology to mitigate existing and emerging threats. Srikanth is a seasoned hands-on leader with expertise and a proven track record of developing and implementing Information Technology Systems and Information Security controls based on global best practices that improve and contribute to the organization’s efficiency and data security.
Srikanth explains their motivation for entering the cloud security industry, citing the rapid change in the threat landscape and cloud-led digital transformation, as well as digital acceleration during the pandemic, as some of the key drivers.
Srikanth adds that one of their significant USPs is their extensive experience in the digital infrastructure space in on-premise, private, and public cloud. “We have helped more than 150+ enterprises fight cybercrime, protect patented data, and reduce security risks by delivering it 24/7 from our Global SOC in Hyderabad. Our greatest differentiator is our Lineage, where we have invested thousands and millions of man-hours in understanding technology and business problems, as well as in developing solutions and services to address them.”
The Cymune Threat Continuum
According to Srikanth, there are some essential characteristics of a top cloud security firm. They are as follows: Industry/Domain Knowledge, Cloud Expertise (Multi-Cloud) and Cloud Native Security, and Modern App Postures. A risk-based and zero-trust approach, as well as being proactive in identifying potential threats, mitigating threats, and taking measures to close security gaps, are all recommended.
He goes on to say that, in order to protect systems, most security tools today focus on visibility and blocking at the point of entry. However, the proliferation of threats outpaces these network defence tactics, and the resulting gap will never be completely closed. This security dynamic will not be adequately addressed by any new technology. Instead, a new criterion is needed: a defence model that detects, mitigates, and remediates attacks before, during, and after they occur.
Security methods must focus on both detection and the ability to mitigate the impact after an attacker gets in. “We look at your security model holistically and gain visibility and control not just at the endpoints but across the extended network and the entire attack continuum before an attack happens, during the time it’s in progress, and after it has damaged systems or stolen information,” he explains adding that they have…
A New Model for the New Threat Dynamics: Pre, During, and Post
Pre-Attack- Identify what’s on the extended network to implement policies and controls to defend it.
- Threat Anticipation
- Threat Hunting
- Baselining
- Security Advisory
During Attack- Detect and block threats and malware continuously.
- Threat Detection and Remediation
- Incident Response
- Cyber Fusion Center
Post-Attack- Reduce the impact of an attack by identifying the point of entry, determining the scope, containing the threat, eliminating the risk of reinfection, and remediation.
- Continuous Security Events Monitoring
- Security Analytics and Intelligence
- Vulnerability Management
- IDAM and PAM
Secure Cyber Wisdom
Speaking about the challenges encountered and overcome by them, Srikanth says that the biggest challenge has always been a talent crunch. Finding the right talent.
Due to rapid digitization where companies are adopting a cloud-first/mobile-first approach the attack surface is constantly expanding and therefore the security approach, too, needs to be dynamic enough to keep pace with it. Lastly, one should have Security by design approach instead of thinking of security as an afterthought. “We are creating such an awareness amongst our clients,” he informs.
Being an experienced leader, Srikanth shares his precious opinions on how technology is further transforming the cloud security industry, and what advancements can be expected in the future.
Application transformation to microservices and containerization are making cloud security more challenging. Organizations that are taking a cloud path need to be cognizant of these and need partners to adopt in dealing with these technology advancements.
Data SecOps – Data Privacy, Data Protection, and Compliance, Managed SOC, MDR, DevSecOps, Run-time protection, Container protection, and IT/OT Convergence are some of the technological advancements in the Cloud Security Space. Currently, Cymune is abreast with each of these technologies and utilizing them efficiently to make customers secure.
Virtually Secure Future in the Cloud
In his advice to the aspirants willing to venture into the field, Srikanth says that Cloud Security is a continuous journey one needs to be on, so any organization venturing into this field needs to be nimble to adapt quickly, have deep domain expertise to tackle any security-related challenges, and a single-minded focus in delivering latest innovations in cloud security with expertise in dealing with multi-cloud environments. They need to understand the different security challenges in the cloud.
Citing an example, he says, “For one of the global manufacturers of home care and repair products we helped them set up a Virtual Security Office. We also helped them in the complete migration to Azure with Security by design approach. Currently, we are also providing them with 24/7 SOC Monitoring and Threat Management with services like WAF Managed Service, Vulnerability and threat management, and Incident Response and Remediation. We have helped them gain continuous visibility to security events and incidents along with enhancing their cloud security posture and risk quantification. Our services to modernize their enterprise-wide Security intelligence was much appreciated and applauded by the client.
We are a recognized AWS Cloud Security Partner, a Strong ecosystem of partnerships with partners like Cisco, Palo Alto, Axio, Seceon, Splunk, F5, Azure, etc.”
Cymune also offers complete environments like
- Hybrid Cloud- Security designed for your hybrid infrastructure,
- Data Center- Cymune Security for the Modern Data Center,
- Cloud- Securing You in your Cloud Journey,
- Container- Cymunize your containers today,
- Mobile- World-class Mobile Security,
- Industrial Control Systems (OT)– OT Security for Industrial IT.
