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Is the organization vulnerable to disasters and other disruptions? What will be the impact on the bottom line, in case of disruptions? How does one successfully restore business operations subsequent to a disruption? Are the right internal controls in place? Are all critical resources backed up/ redundant? Is it possible to restore these and ensure continuity of business? What is a reasonable time period to restore operations? Are the procedure to be followed and the roles and responsibilities in case of a disruption, clearly defined? Are employees trained on handling emergencies? Where does one begin?

In today’s Internet economy competition is just a mouse click away. The Internet has proved to be a great leveler and a company is being perceived to be only as good as its website is. People rate a company by their online experience when they visit the company website. A disappointing experience and you could have lost a potential customer forever.

Growing usage of network and the need for deployment of value added services and mission critical applications to the present IP networks has led to organizations and companies revaluating the usage pattern of their IP traffic and re-engineering to align it with their business objectives. Traditionally networks have offered best-effort services only. However, increased necessity for distributed computing and differentiated services has led to two distinct accounting problems. First, the level of network resource and services that individual user receives. Second, networks offering multiple computing services require more careful resource management and access control than do best-effort networks. Usage-based pricing is one way to control access for improved services.

The deluge of information has ushered the creation of the new knowledge driven economy. Today, with Information systems automating practically every conceivable aspect of your business, the cost of downtime has become inconceivable. Networks built to support these business systems are expected to deliver consistent performance and the highest level of reliability. Unreliable performance of the network will cause a substantial impact on your revenues and an immeasurable impact in terms of loss of business opportunity.

In the current business scenario where at one end there are rapidly evolving technologies and simultaneously customers are expecting services of global nature – enterprises and service providers are grappling with the challenges. The solutions lie in efficient deployment of available resources. The usefulness of standardized processes and an integrated process flow has been demonstrated in a variety of industries; be it the manufacturing revolution of early 20th century or the digital age of present.

World-over, banks have pioneered carrying out real-value business transactions over the Internet through online or Internet banking. The value of the transactions and the openness of the Internet have brought to light some security, legal and regulatory issues associated with such transactions.

The ISO 17799 is an internationally recognized Information Security Management Standard, first published by the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO (www.iso.ch), in December 2000.

Conventional Encryption Model Symmetric Encryption (DES, 3DES, IDEA, Blowfish, RC2, RC5 & CAST-128) Asymmetric Encryption (RSA & ECC) Hash Functions & Algorithms ( MD5 & SHA-1)

Is my Information systems infrastructure vulnerable to external attacks? How do I know what is the risk to my business? And how much is it? How do I protect the vital information resources from hackers, competitors and unauthorized internal users? Do I have the right internal controls in place? Where do I begin?

Client and Server operating systems exposed to the Public network Some one some where with a lot of time,patience wants to compromise security,break into a system and feel “Hey I did it”