TCS collaborates with Indusface, AWS to prevent DDoS attacks

NEW DELHI: IT services company TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) has partnered with application security solutions company Indusface and AWS, a provider of online services for client-side applications, to prevent DDoS attacks.

Kinshuk De, Business Operations, Enterprise Security Risk Management at TCS, said, "Blurring of enterprise boundaries has increased the attack surface, vulnerabilities and concerns related to web application security. While we are also in the business of providing dedicated and shared services enterprise security to global customers, in today's environment it has become necessary to collaborate with leading industry partners for their expertise in certain areas. Therefore, we decided to partner with Indusface."

TCS runs multiple web applications including a Cyber Security Community platform that brings together security practitioners and experts, both from TCS community and customers to share ideas, security experiences and collaborate. The TCS-ESRM (Enterprise security Risk Management) practice is responsible for securing over 1,000,00 devices, more than 25 Dedicated SOCs and one Shared Services Security Operations Center, and caters to more than 300 customers globally.

"The ever evolving threat environment and technology makes the risks to information, application and infrastructure challenging to anticipate and quantify. Enterprises, today, face greater risks from sophisticated attack of increasing complexity than ever before. Applications are being updated continuously with new modules being added every day.

In such an environment, it is essential for us to maintain complete confidentiality, integrity and availability across all applications," further explained De. "Indusface has provided us continuous monitoring and complete protection of our applications from various attack vectors. Their solution is policy-driven which allowed us to set up custom rules according to our infrastructure and the specific requirements we have," De added.

Venkatesh Sundar, CTO, Indusface, said, "Statistics show that 75% of the attacks take place at the application layer and can take as much as 100 days to fix. Application layer attacks can easily bypass security infrastructure. Indusface provides Total Application Security solutions that detect, protect and monitor the TCS web applications from any such attacks."

Santanu Dutt, Solutions Architect, AWS said, "More enterprises are adopting the AWS solutions today because of our emphasis on security. One single breach or an attack has the capacity to affect the credibility of any organisation. We believe in offering visibility, auditability and control to our clients."