New Delhi, Dec 31: Security and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI) has selected 15 companies including giants like Tata Communication, Tech Mahindra and Wipro to protect the market regulator against cyber threats. The companies will have to identify and classify security holes in IT infrastructure. The regulator had asked for an expression of interest (EOI) for the services in September this year.
Sebi has shortlisted seven bidders – Wipro, Ernst & Young LLP, Pricewaterhouse, Sumeru Software Solutions, Digital Age Strategies, AAA Technologies, Auditime Information Systems (India) Ltd – to identify and classify security holes in its entire information technology infrastructure and suggest measures to mitigate such risks.
Besides, Tata Communications, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, IBM India, Sify Technologies, Pricewaterhouse, Dimension Data India Pvt Ltd and Netmagic Solutions are among the eight companies that have been shortlisted to set-up a ‘network and security operation centre’.
the agency will be responsible for carrying out enterprise-wide system audit focused on configuration, security aspects, risk assessment, deployment, administration, access control, back up and business continuity.
With respect to ‘network and security operation centre’, Sebi said that selected company will be responsible for all the activities related to information security, including anti-phishing, anti-malware, anti-trojan, anti-ransom and implementation of security solutions such as content filter and virtual browsing solutions at the regulator.