MUMBAI, India, April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualys
Security Conference -- Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS),
a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and
compliance solutions, today announced it now supports the Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) Cyber Security
Guidelines to help financial institutions in India address and report on a range of
technical and procedural requirements using a unified security and
compliance solution. Qualys will demonstrate these capabilities for
automating RBI Compliance today at its user conference in
Mumbai.
Exposure to cyber attacks and data breaches have increased
significantly against India's
banks as they rapidly evolve and digitally transform. The RBI Cyber
Security Guidelines assist financial institutions in achieving a
new-era preventative security baseline. Using the Qualys security
and compliance platform, these financial institutions can easily
address both the technical and procedural requirements for
compliance and reporting without adding the cost or complexity of
point solutions. The Qualys platform can be delivered to customers
worldwide either from Qualys' public cloud infrastructure,
including from within India, or
via a Qualys Private Cloud Platform (PCP).
"Significant automation capability with the right security tools
is very important to gain a continuous view of banks' compliance
with RBI Cyber Security framework," said Ashutosh Jain, chief information security
officer at Axis Bank. This automation will not just minimize human
error, but will also allow security teams in the banking, financial
services and insurance industry to balance and better manage future
changes to the framework with ease."
"Today's digital way of life puts immense pressure on financial
institutions to provide both business flexibility and an
unprecedented level of security for their customers' financial
information," said Philippe Courtot,
chairman and CEO, Qualys, Inc. "The new guidelines require banks
across India to put in place a
robust cyber security and resilience program to help them assess
their security posture on a continuous basis, which Qualys delivers
uniquely through its highly scalable security and compliance
platform that can be delivered on premise or via the cloud."
Qualys RBI Compliance Solution
Qualys enables banking
organizations to more easily meet existing and new regulations such
as RBI guidelines without the hassle of deploying, managing and
integrating point security products from multiple vendors. The
Qualys Cloud Platform incorporates more than 10 applications, all
of which are delivered via the cloud, on top of Qualys'
infrastructure and core services. It features several unified
turnkey solutions in one platform that allows customers to
efficiently comply with the RBI Cyber Security Guidelines:
- Two-Second Visibility and Prioritization:
Qualys AssetView (AV), Vulnerability Management (VM) and
ThreatPROTECT (TP) work together to provide complete visibility of
a customer's assets, vulnerabilities, and related risk as required
by the RBI Cyber Security Guidelines. Since the RBI Guidelines
require continuous surveillance and baselining of risks in an
organization, these modules can be supplemented with Qualys
Continuous Monitoring (CM), which enables customers to immediately
identify and proactively address potential problems.
- Compliance: Customers can use Qualys Policy Compliance
(PC) to automate security configuration assessments and quickly
determine compliance with RBI technical security requirements, as
it provides out-of-the-box reports that customers can run in
minutes to document their preparedness against RBI Guidelines.
Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) allows customers
with out-of-the-box campaign templates to derive the posture of
procedural RBI guideline elements such as vendor risk management or
user awareness, and verify that these procedural controls are
enforced internally and by third-party vendors and partners.
- Web Application Security: Banks can use Qualys Web
Application Scanning (WAS) to implement the RBI guidelines for
vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and red team
exercises, application security life cycle, patch/vulnerability and
change management. In addition, Qualys Web Application Firewall
(WAF) can be an integral part of their multi-layered security
infrastructure and help banks implement the RBI guidelines of web
application security lifecycle.
Qualys Cloud Platform in India
Qualys set up its first Secure
Operations Center (SOC) in Pune
this year to provide enterprises access to cost-effective,
localized cloud-based security and compliance solutions that
support data sovereignty requirements of Indian organizations.
Financial institutions have a critical need to comply with
regulations, and this recently added SOC provides them with
localized access to asset discovery, network security, threat
protection, compliance monitoring and web application security.
Qualys Private Cloud Platform
Organizations can also
deploy Qualys via the Qualys Private Cloud Platform, also available
as a 1U appliance, which offers the same robust private cloud
security and compliance services while keeping all sensitive
security and compliance data generated by Qualys locally in the
customer's datacenter.
For all deployment models, Qualys offers open APIs, which allow
organizations to seamlessly integrate into Cyber Security Operation
Centers that are mandated by RBI. There is no new software to
deploy or infrastructure to maintain.
Additional
Resources:
- Follow Qualys on LinkedIn and Twitter
- Read more about the Qualys Cloud Platform and PCPA
- Read more about using Qualys to achieve RBI Compliance:
https://www.qualys.com/RBI
About Qualys
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer
and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance
solutions with over 9,300 customers in more than 100 countries,
including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune
100. The Qualys Cloud Platform and integrated suite of solutions
help organizations simplify security operations and lower the cost
of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on
demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and
protection for IT systems and web applications. Founded in 1999,
Qualys has established strategic partnerships with leading managed
service providers and consulting organizations including Accenture,
BT, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HCL
Technologies, HP Enterprise, IBM, Infosys, NTT, Optiv, SecureWorks,
Tata Communications, Verizon and Wipro. The company is also a
founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). For more
information, please visit www.qualys.com.
Qualys, the Qualys logo and QualysGuard are proprietary
trademarks of Qualys, Inc. All other products or names may be
trademarks of their respective companies.
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