Implementation & Procurement Services: A Vendor Independent Approach

Companies that rely on mission-critical applications to run their business require a comprehensive range of technology and professional service offerings to ensure optimum availability of those applications. Sify Guardian responds by providing comprehensive solutions through partnership with leading security vendors across the world. Our partners include among others:

Sify has partnered with the best of breed technologies in the market today. We have in house expertise to deploy all of the following:

Firewalls

Netscreen Technologies

Netscreen Technologies Inc. is dramatically advancing Internet security by delivering some of the industry's highest performance firewall/VPN solutions. The company's breakthrough ASIC-based approach to security enables near wire-speed packet processing, ensuring full connection bandwidth by eliminating the performance bottlenecks associated with other legacy security products.
Netscreen Technologies high performance firewall, VPN and traffic management functions to Internet data centers, service providers and enterprises offers customers award-winning performance, scalability, and manageability.

Visit the Netscreen site www.Netscreen.com

Checkpoint

Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. It is the confirmed market leader of both the worldwide VPN and firewall markets. The company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture provides the VPN and security infrastructure that uniquely enables secure and reliable Internet communications. SVN solutions, as delivered in the company's Next Generation product family, secure business communications and resources for corporate networks, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. Extending the power of SVN is Check Point's Open Platform for Security (OPSEC), the industry's framework and alliance for integration and interpretability with "best-of-breed" solutions from over 325 leading companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of more than 2,500 certified partners in 149 countries.

Visit the Checkpoint site at www.checkpoint.com

Symantec

Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security software and appliance solutions to individuals, enterprises and service providers. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in 38 countries.

With threats to information systems coming from all sides and growing in number and complexity, enterprise customers know that hardening network perimeters is not enough. Symantec provides best-of-breed security solutions for all tiers of a network: at the gateways between the network and the outside world, at the servers that act as the network's vital organs, and at end-user devices including desktop PCs, laptops and handhelds.

Read More at www.Symantec.com

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and government networks around the world. Cisco offers a comprehensive array of market-leading, enterprise network security solutions to make implementation and maintenance of good network security easier and more cost-effective.

The company's tradition of innovation continues today with Cisco creating leading products and key technologies that will make the Internet more useful and dynamic in the years ahead. These technologies include: advanced routing and switching, voice and video over IP, optical networking, wireless, storage networking, security, broadband, and content networking.
In addition to technology and product leadership, Cisco is recognized as an innovator in how business is conducted. The company has been a pioneer in using the Internet to provide customer support, sell products, offer training, and manage finances.

To learn more about Cisco Systems, visit the site at www.cisco.com

WatchGuard Technologies

WatchGuard is a leading provider of dynamic, comprehensive Internet security solutions designed to protect enterprises that use the Internet for e-business and secure communications.

The company was a pioneer in the creation of the plug-and-play Internet security appliance and offers solutions for any size organization - from large enterprises with geographically dispersed offices and telecommuting employees to home offices with a single broadband connection.

WatchGuard's layered defense approach delivers strong, dependable network security solutions. Defense in depth security can be tailored to fit the needs of every enterprise, regardless of size.

Every standard WatchGuard product includes an initial subscription to our innovative LiveSecurity® Service that provides our customers with systematic updates and security intelligence. Backed by a team of security experts, technical support representatives and trainers, LiveSecurity includes software updates, LiveSecurity broadcasts (threat responses, virus alerts, information alerts, expert editorials and support flashes), technical support and online training.

To learn more about Watchguard visit the site at www.watchguard.com

Fortinet Inc.

Fortinet is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with customer support, development and sales facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia to ensure continuous customer success.

Using Fortinet's ASIC innovation and performance acceleration capabilities, FortiGate Systems detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. In addition to providing application level protection, FortiGate systems give users their choice of 'best in class' network-level services - firewall, VPN,Antivirus, intrusion detection and traffic shaping - delivering a complete network protection services in dedicated, easily managed platforms. These products and subscription services have won the industry's largest number of awards and certifications while continue to lead the performance benchmarks for either individual 'best in class security applications' or as an integrated Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution.

Read more at www.fortinet.com

Content / URL Filtering

SurfControl

SurfControl plc, a world leading Internet Security Company since 1997, delivers on its promise to shield organizations from known and emerging Internet threats... before they jeopardize the organization. With continuous innovation, invention and expansion of its filtering solutions, SurfControl is the leader in the Content Security market, which analysts expect to reach nearly $2 billion by 2007.

The Company has redefined traditional “filtering” by offering a unified Enterprise Protection Suite™ that continuously filters inbound and outbound Internet traffic—thereby eliminating spam, spyware and phishing attacks, as well as Web and e-mail abuse.

SurfControl’s Adaptive Threat Intelligence Service™ powers its Enterprise Protection Suite of products to proactively identify and stop threats before they enter or exit an enterprise. With integrated 24/7 worldwide threat analysis and research, SurfControl’s Global Threat Experts™ deliver dynamic databases and real-time intelligence technologies--providing continuously adapting protection from ever-changing Internet threats.

SurfControl partners with world-class businesses such as Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Networks, Blue Coat, Check Point, IBM, Research In Motion and Nokia to seamlessly integrate into an organizations larger security infrastructure. The company has more than 20,000 customers worldwide, including many of the world's largest corporations, and employs more than 500 people in offices across the United States, Europe and Asia/Pacific.

Read more at www.surfcontrol.com

Websense

Founded in 1994, Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) is the global leader of web filtering and a premier provider of web security software. Recently recognized as one of Forbes Magazine's 2004 "Top 25 Technology Companies", Websense provides solutions trusted by more than 20 million employees worldwide ranging in size from 100-person organizations to multinational corporations.Websense products increase employee internet productivity and secure organizations from emerging internet threats by providing a proactive critical security component that complements traditional security solutions. The company’s products integrate with a wide range of industry leading security and network products including firewalls, proxy servers, caches, switches, routers, and appliances. Websense products have been thoroughly tested and certified to work seamlessly with all major security and network products. Websense offers solutions across a wide range of industries including health care, finance/banking/insurance, government/public sector, manufacturing, legal, technology, wholesale/retail, services and education.

Read more about www.websense.com

Intrusion Detection Systems

Internet Security Systems

Internet Security Systems is a pioneer and world leader in software and services that protect corporate and personal information from an ever-changing spectrum of online threats and misuse. As organizations increasingly move operations online, the number and sophistication of threats to networks, servers and desktops also continues to escalate. Internet Security Systems' solutions dynamically detect, prevent and respond to these threats.

Internet Security Systems (ISS) provides information security management for networks, servers, applications and desktops. In March 2001 International Data Corporation (IDC) officially recognized ISS as the leader in the Intrusion Detection and Vulnerability Assessment.

Visit the ISS site at www.iss.net

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and government networks around the world. Cisco offers a comprehensive array of market-leading, enterprise network security solutions to make implementation and maintenance of good network security easier and more cost-effective.

The company's tradition of innovation continues today with Cisco creating leading products and key technologies that will make the Internet more useful and dynamic in the years ahead. These technologies include: advanced routing and switching, voice and video over IP, optical networking, wireless, storage networking, security, broadband, and content networking.
In addition to technology and product leadership, Cisco is recognized as an innovator in how business is conducted. The company has been a pioneer in using the Internet to provide customer support, sell products, offer training, and manage finances.

To learn more about Cisco Systems, visit the site at www.cisco.com

Symantec

Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security software and appliance solutions to individuals, enterprises and service providers. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in 38 countries.

With threats to information systems coming from all sides and growing in number and complexity, enterprise customers know that hardening network perimeters is not enough. Symantec provides best-of-breed security solutions for all tiers of a network: at the gateways between the network and the outside world, at the servers that act as the network's vital organs, and at end-user devices including desktop PCs, laptops and handhelds.

Read More at www.Symantec.com

Enterprise Anti Virus Solution

Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated is a global leader in antivirus and content security software and services. The company led the migration of virus protection from the desktop to the network server and the Internet gateway - gaining a reputation for vision and technological innovation along the way. Trend Micro specializes in high-performance, server-based virus protection with advanced management capabilities, scalable for any size enterprise, large or small. Today, Trend Micro focuses on providing customers with a comprehensive approach to managing the impact of mixed-threats to their productivity and their information, through such initiatives as Trend Micro Enterprise Protection Strategy. 

Trend Micro has a solid reputation for transforming great ideas into cutting-edge technology. Citing its strategy and vision, the Gartner Group has hailed Trend Micro a visionary malicious code management supplier for four consecutive years

Visit the Trend Micro site at www.trendmicro.com

McAfee

An online anti-virus service that provides continuously updated protection against malicious code. Highly scalable, ideal for businesses with limited IT budgets and resources looking to outsource their virus management or needing to manage remote users, telecommuters, decentralized locations, or branch offices. It displaces a company’s burden of administering virus protection to McAfee Security, a leader in anti-virus technology. Outsourcing your anti-virus management reduces overhead costs significantly by allowing valuable IT resources to refocus on your core business or other critical projects while you rest easy with the knowledge that your desktops and servers are protected by VirusScan ASaP. All the features of VirusScan ASaP aim to provide “As Soon as Possible” updates while ensuring that users are given “As Secure as Possible” protection. Secure Synergy has exclusive rights to sell McAffee in SAARC. Secure Synergy, a part of the Sainik Group of Companies, which has diverse businesses — coal mining (India's largest mechanized fleet of surface miners), transportation, cement, explosives, optics, wild life resorts, finance and asset management. The group has large overseas assets and significant presence in the Middle East (Dubai), UK and Africa (Ethiopia). It has strategically diversified into Information Technology.

Read more at www.nai.com, www.securesynergy.com

Total Enterprise Protection

Symantec

Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security software and appliance solutions to individuals, enterprises and service providers. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in 38 countries.

With threats to information systems coming from all sides and growing in number and complexity, enterprise customers know that hardening network perimeters is not enough. Symantec provides best-of-breed security solutions for all tiers of a network: at the gateways between the network and the outside world, at the servers that act as the network's vital organs, and at end-user devices including desktop PCs, laptops and handhelds.

Integrated security solutions are designed to work together as a unified system, providing better overall protection, quicker response and more efficient management.
Security management solutions, based on an open, standards-based architecture, provide a comprehensive view of security, enabling proactive defense and real-time enterprise-wide response.
Firewall/VPN solutions to protect data and assets without slowing performance.

Intrusion detection solutions that act as a "security force" inside the perimeter to spot intruders that penetrate the outer defenses.

Policy compliance management solutions help customers define and enforce policies from a central location as well as probe for network vulnerabilities and suggest remedies.

Virus protection/content filtering solutions offer critical protection from Internet-borne threats for the desktop through the gateway for individuals all the way up to the largest enterprise.

Symantec's enterprise administration tools provide secure, economical, centralized network management for rolling out thousands of new PCs or migrating existing PCs to new operating systems, reducing total cost of ownership. In addition, Symantec provides a solution for highly secure remote control and access.

Services

Symantec Security Services provides information security solutions that incorporate best-of-breed technology, security expertise, and global resources to help enable e-business success. Through its three service families, Symantec offers industry best practices, proactive monitoring and management, and knowledge transfer.

Response

Symantec Security Response is a team of dedicated intrusion experts, security engineers, virus hunters, and global technical support teams that work in tandem to provide extensive coverage for enterprise businesses and consumers. Symantec Security Response provides customers with comprehensive, global, 24x7 Internet security expertise to guard against today's complex Internet threats.
Symantec Security Response delivers knowledgeable, proactive security protection through product security policies and best practice guidelines that can be updated and distributed through automated processes. Additionally, Symantec Security Response provides rapid security protection through its incident response program, including emergency antivirus signatures, definitions, and policies, as well as outbound communications such as alerting services.

The company is a leading provider of client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and virtual private network, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, Internet content and email filtering, and remote management technologies and security services to enterprises and service providers around the world. Symantec's Norton brand of consumer security products is a leader in worldwide retail sales and industry awards.

Read More at www.Symantec.com

Load Balancing

Radware

Radware is the global leader in application switching, ensuring availability, performance and security of networked applications. Radware is a pioneer for the security solutions where its inline security solution bi- directionally scans all network traffic and delivers real-time protection from a wide variety of application level attacks such as worms, viruses, exploits and DoS/DDoS attacks, at multi-Gigabit speeds.

The awards-winning product range optimizes the use of network resources under various environments: Defense Pro for Intrusion Prevention, LinkProof for Internet Link Application Switching, WSD family - Local and Global Application Switching for multiple servers load balancing and Fireproof - Security Application Switching to maximize performance and uptime of multiple Firewall servers and VPN systems.

The differentiating factor in Radware solution lies in Radware's SynApps Architecture, which is the industry's first tool to bridge the gap between applications needs and network infrastructure. SynApps enables comprehensive and scalable application service management by combining traffic redirection, advanced health monitoring, bandwidth management, application security and Denial of Service (DoS) protection, in a powerful ASIC-based switch platform.

Read More at www.radware.com

Sify and the above companies have partnered to deliver comprehensive security solutions for you’re computing environment through combined expertise, which are synergistic in nature. Our alliance with the above companies exemplifies our commitment in providing customers with the most comprehensive Enterprise security solutions available across the globe.