Industry: IT
Location: India
Products Used: Web Security Gateway
KPIT Cummins Infosystems Uses Websense® Security Gateway to Protect the Company From Web-Based Threats
The ability with Websense to protect remote users distinguished the solution from its competitors.
Mandar Marulkar, Head, Technical Infrastructure Management Services and CISO, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.
KPIT is focused on co-creating domain-intensive technology products and solutions to help its customers become efficient, integrated, and innovative manufacturing enterprises. In a world where success is a function of time, “speed-to-enable” has become the company motto and this has been reflected in its approach to security. With a head office and development centre in Pune, the company also has development centre’s in Bangalore and Poland, and offices in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Japan.
The Problem
KPIT Cummins required a Web security solution that would seamlessly manage the Web and protect its network. On its squid-based proxy servers, it previously would update policies manually, and the efficacy of these policies was largely dependent on the knowledge and skill-base of the security administrators.
In the past, most Web content was static and predictable. But today’s reality is that Web content — even from so-called “trusted” sites — is constantly changing. Reactive Web filtering measures can’t keep up and KPIT Cummins was aware that it needed a solution that could offer real-time protection and automatically block Web threats and malicious sites as they are identified in the wild.
“Various kinds of threats and attacks — spyware, malicious software, keyloggers — are being launched every second,” says Mandar Marulkar, Head, Technical Infrastructure Management Services and CISO at KPIT Cummins. “We needed a security solution that would mitigate these threats on an ongoing basis.”
The Solution
Having considered a number of solutions, KPIT Cummins found that Websense® Web Security Gateway fully met its requirements. Websense Security Gateway enables the organisation to manage dynamic Web 2.0 content and SSL traffic, scan for malcode in real-time, and block blended threats.
Real-time protection
“Websense offered the most powerful protection in real time. The solution is also easy to use, as it is completely GUI-based and provides us with exhaustive and granular policy management,” said Vijay Joshi, Manager Networks & Projects.
Websense analyses and secures Web traffic in real time, enabling the safe use of the latest Web 2.0 sites and tools. The solution combines this powerful security with highly intuitive policy management and reporting and its delegated administration enables effective time management of Web security while reducing errors that can lead to breaches.
Websense also minimises exposure to threats by applying updates by utilizing the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network. The Websense Threatseeker Network continuously scans the Internet to find new malware before it strikes. By finding a threat at the source, Websense can block it everywhere — from email to Web mail, from static URLs to dynamic Web 2.0 sites and open proxies.
The Results
By taking advantage of the ability to easily manage its Web security, KPIT Cummins has seen significant improvement in a number of areas of its business. “The solution has helped us to improve productivity in the organisation,” says Marulkar. “It enables granular policy management, so we simply need to configure the policies accordingly.”
A comprehensive management report generation also allows KPIT Cummins to fine-tune the security policy to a greater extent. “The solution helps monitor Internet usage, and management reports provide statistics about this. The report generation is automated and is scheduled to send reports by email to the management concerned. We can then change our policies based on these trends,” Vijay Joshi adds.
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