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Netrika Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., India’s leading risk management and fraud investigation company, has recently entered into a partnership with Skytouch Global Hotel Security Consulting of Australia to exclusively undertake security audit as per the Sky Touch’s ‘Global Lighthouse Certification Program’ in hotels located in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. “Security is globally a prime concern for travelers, and more so for corporate C-suite personnel and high net-worth individuals. We are proud to partner with Sky Touch Global to deliver world class audit services of hotels in India and other parts of the world. Security audit of hotels is a niche service and we are confident that we can effect a positive transformation in security standard and frameworks of hotels in our territories” – Sanjay Kaushik, MD – Netrika Security audit and certification of hotels is a globally accepted risk mitigation tool. It is preferred for C-level executives and high profile guests. The certification also provides a security framework that meets expectations of global travellers. Globally, the hotel market was valued at $147.57 billion in 2018 and is expected to generate around $211.54 billion by 2026. For business travellers form a significant segment of the market, security is and will continue to be of prime concern from business perspective and otherwise. “We are proud to enter into a strategic partnership with Netrika, India. Netrika is now the authorized auditing partner for the Global Lighthouse Certification Program in Central Asia, North Africa and Middle East. With offices in Delhi, Dubai and Singapore, Netrika will conduct Sky Touch audits in over 15 countries. Together, we are confident of making hotels in this part of the world safer for travellers” – Stefan Vito Hiller, Founder – Sky Touch Global Netrika Consulting is a premier risk mitigation & forensic investigation firm offering a bouquet of services including corporate fraud investigation, cyber security, forensic audit, forensic due-diligence, and background checks including employee screening, third party screening and vendor due-diligence for its clientele of large domestic and global corporates operating in the country. Today, Netrika is one of the largest Indian consulting companies with unparalleled spread of team across India, including tier 2 & 3 cities. Netrika is well poised to become the biggest consulting company in the next 4-5 years and has plans to go global. Sky Touch Global is an Australia based independent hotel consulting firm specialized in hotel risk management. Founded in 2013, Sky Touch operates globally to conduct risk assessment, auditing and certifying hotels and providing specialised training programs in security. Global Lighthouse Certification Program – Sky Touch’s branded hotel security certification, is the first security certification for hotels that focuses purely on guest expectations. It provides security solutions and certification suitable to most hotel segments.  

  GLOBUS Infocom, a ‘Make in India’ brand and one of the most innovatory organizations that provides advanced technological solutions, participated in the 22nd India International Security Expo 2019 held from 3 to 5 October 2019 in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi to showcase their innovative products in the field of security and surveillance. Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defense, Government of India who visited the expo dropped in the Globus Infocom booth and saw their displays. He discussed with Kiran Dham, CEO – Globus Infcom about the defence and homeland security products displayed and more. Expressing her views, Kiran said, “We are honoured to have hosted Mr. Rajnath Singh at the India International Security Expo, and I am delighted for his gracious presence at the Globus Infocom display in particular. He asked about the surveillance products that we manufacture, and also appreciated the work and high end technology that we are offering in India.” The Minister said, “India cannot remain dependent on imported weapons for long and we need to align with the country’s plans to become a superpower.” IISE is a business platform offering opportunities for forging partnerships, joint ventures, B2B, and showcase of capabilities, products and services in defence and home land security by India as well as foreign companies and much more. Globus Infocom is one of the most trusted organizations with key focus on providing highly advanced, cost-effective and reliable technological solutions in the field of education technology, digital signage and display, and security and surveillance. It’s one of those Make in India brands which have its own highly equipped manufacturing facility. With the widest range of product offerings designed to cater to 21st century requirements, it has got the complete range of products registered on GeM (Government e-Market).  

nCipher Security, an Entrust Datacard company and provider of trust, integrity and control for business-critical information and applications, announces that its nShield Connect XC hardware security module (HSM) is now certified by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Organizations in India now can protect their sensitive data, network communications and enterprise infrastructure from cyberattacks with a BIS-approved, high-assurance security foundation. India is one of the countries with the world’s highest HSM usage (54% against the global average of 47%), according to the 2019 Global Encryption Trends Study from the Ponemon Institute, driven by organizations embracing the cloud and new digital initiatives such as the internet of things (IoT), blockchain and digital payments. That number is expected to grow as the country embarks on its Digital India initiative, continues to roll out the Aadhaar biometric ID system, and furthers its smart cities mission. nShield HSMs are hardened, tamper-resistant appliances that perform functions including encryption, digital signing, and cryptographic key generation and protection. With their comprehensive capabilities, nShield HSMs support an extensive range of applications, including certificate authorities and code signing. As the national standards body of India, the BIS sets parameters for ensuring the quality, safety and reliability of products entering the Indian market, and is mandatory for many IT products, including HSMs. By earning BIS certification for nShield Connect XC HSMs, nCipher reaffirms its position as an HSM market leader, committed to helping customers meet compliance needs around the world. Over 1,000 organizations rely on nCipher HSMs, including 5 of the top 10 Fortune 100 companies. “nCipher has long championed best practices and industry standards. Achieving BIS certification demonstrates our commitment to the Indian market and to the highest security standards and compliance requirements,” said Philip Schreiber, Regional Director, Middle East, Africa and South Asia at nCipher Security, “We are pleased that the BIS has certified nCipher’s ability to meet its high cybersecurity standards.” nCipher nShield HSMs are also certified to FIPS-140-2 level 3 – a standard defined by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the most widely adopted security benchmark for cryptographic solutions in government and commercial enterprises, and the international Common Criteria EAL4+.  

HID Global® showcased its latest secured identity solutions at the recently held Smart Cards Expo 2019 in Delhi. HID Global for the first time in India unveiled its latest ID card retransfer printer, HID® FARGO® HDP6600 high definition printer/ encoder with breakthrough speed as well as GreenCircle® certification and the HID FARGO® Connect™, an industry’s first cloud-based solution that simplifies and streamlines the issuance of ID cards as well as credentials. HID Global also featured its OMNIKEY® readers, HID® Lumidigm® V-series fingerprint sensors and modules, iCLASS SE® and HID® Digital Persona single fingerprint modules and readers that help with tracking, meeting room bookings, monitoring of time-lines and attendance. The company conducted live demonstrations of its identity solutions on all three days of the expo. “India is a very important emerging market for HID Global and events like Smart Cards Expo offer us the perfect opportunity to showcase our latest products. Through such platforms, we can tap into the various market opportunities and continue to expand our market in Asia,” said Lalit Agarwal, Sales Head, South Asia Secure Issuance, HID Global. Products displayed at the SmartCard Expo 2019 Secured card personalization solutions: HID® FARGO® HDP6600 is a high definition printer/ encoder designed to save customers time, money and energy by cutting in half the time it takes to print the first ID card while doubling overall throughput as compared to many alternatives. Powerful cloud printing solution: HID® FARGO® Connect is a revolutionary cloud-based card issuance solution that takes seamless on-boarding and credential issuance to a new level. Contact, contactless & multi-interface readers: OMNIKEY® readers enable strong authentication to computer, network or cloud. These readers can support CCID driver and keyboard wedge mode; and are designed to support contact and contactless cards. Integrating mobility and connectivity: iCLASS SE® allow integrators to design third-party solutions that support mobility via near field communications (NFC) or bluetooth smart, alongside a full range of card technologies. The module’s dual frequency capability allows the simultaneous use of both high and low frequency credentials on the same reader for mixed credential applications. Superior biometric performance: HID® Lumidigm® V-series fingerprint sensors and modules combine convenient as well as reliable biometric authentication with va riety of security features including strong liveness detection, data encryption and tamper resistance to provide an exceptional user experience while eliminating fraud and protecting identities. Fast, reliable & flexible fingerprint readers: HID® Digital Persona single fingerprint modules and readers are compact optical or silicon reader that can meet both FIPS 201 PIV and mobile ID FAP 30 standards. Designed to satisfy the high-volume requirements of large-scale civil ID and commercial authentication applications, these readers are available with a software development kit (SDK) that provides flexible APIs to enable fast integration with a broad range of applications.  

Value Point Systems – A Digital Transformation Catalyst has recently launched a state-of-the-art Cyber Security Experience Centre (CSEC) powered by Cisco in Bengaluru. The new experience center inaugurated by Sameer Garde, President, Cisco India & SAARC, will be showcasing Cisco solutions and allied managed services that enable Value Point customers to build and manage cyber security platforms specific to their business requirements. CSEC will further highlight simulated real-time scenarios specific to various verticals or customers, and also enable its customers to get both advanced and hands-on understanding of the entire gamut of Cisco’s security solutions. Speaking at the inauguration, R S Shanbhag, Chairman and CEO, Value Point Systems said, “As Value Point is moving ahead at a much quicker pace in partnering and supporting customers to swiftly follow the respective digital roadmaps and adopt latest technologies, we play a key role in helping them build capabilities in cyber securities. To ensure that our customers efficiently address the challenges of today’s and future requirement of digitization, we are leveraging Cisco’s expertise for security solutions and have showcased them at the new CSEC.” Today, with the increasing volume, frequency, complexity, severity and impact of cyber-attacks across networks, applications and endpoints, the cyber security market is growing exponentially across the globe. Organizations are gearing up to adopt best practices to address advanced cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Vishak Raman, Director, Security Business, CISCO – India & SAARC said, “The security portfolio is getting into a platform theory extending across network, cloud and endpoint. There is now a need for strong customer experience to understand the power of this integration which led to the genesis of the Value Point’s Cybersecurity Experience Centre. Simulation of the entire Cisco security portfolio’s live working is showcased and customers appreciate the power of integration where they can see attack detection and remediation.” He added, “Cisco’s cybersecurity business is US$3.4 billion globally and is growing more than 17% as of last year. There has been a 70% conversion from customers with standalone system opting for integrated platform. Secondly ELAs (Enterprise License Agreements) has gone up by 30%. Thirdly, time to detect an attack has reduced significantly, from 10.5 hours to 3.5 hours.” Ashok Prabhu, Chief Executive – Sales, Value Point Systems remarked, “CSEC is unique as it is designed based on industry vertical case studies, enabling customers not only to simulate real-time solutions across verticals and use cases, but also to showcase to their customer’s specific requirements.” CSEC exhibits use cases on network visibility & security, optimal security over digital network, and secured enhanced protection across entities in the enterprise, banking and retail/ e-commerce verticals. Going forward, CSEC, both on-premise and remote, will continue to add verticals and use cases portfolio based on customer feedback. Speaking at the inauguration, Sameer Garde said, “As security threats become more complex and persistent, they pose a serious, ongoing challenge. Value Point’s Security Experience Center showcases how customers can prepare themselves to combat new-age cyber threats. We are excited about this initiative and committed to helping our customers secure their digital businesses.”  

Milestone Systems has appointed Ritesh Deokar as the Country Manager of India. The appointment is a strategically important move for the company, adding valuable experience and expertise which complement Milestone Systems’ ambitious expansion plans in the region. I am very excited to come to a leading global company like Milestone Systems, at a time when there is so much happening in the video management and surveillance industry in India. There is enormous potential for Milestone Systems’ open platform VMS solution and my extensive contacts across the IT and security markets here will certainly give us some great scope to forge new alliances, build new solutions and really take the company forward across the region. – Ritesh Deokar Country Manager for India, Milestone System Ritesh joins the company from a senior management position at Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI), where he was responsible for global alliances. Prior to that, he was employed as national alliance manager at Wipro Limited, and has extensive experience working within the ICT sector in India. His diverse background in both technology and security will be of significance to Milestone Systems’ growth in the region. Jordan Cullis, Director for APAC at Milestone Systems said, “The fact that Ritesh brings a converged security and technology skill set to the company fits perfectly with our needs. Video management has evolved far past the point where it exists purely as a standalone technology, and to fully harness the power of an open VMS platform like Milestone Systems, our leaders need to understand and work with the myriad of technologies that integrate with our solutions.” Ritesh received his MBA from Nagpur University, and is fluent in four languages – Hindi, English, Kannada and Marathi. He will be based in Bengaluru. Milestone Systems has committed to an ambitious growth strategy in the region, backed by a global plan to increase their innovation capacity by 45 percent.