With over 350 person years of experience, the Global Information Security and Privacy practice from Cognizant offers end-to-end security solutions that incorporate framework, methodologies and solutions with a manual-tool driven approach. The team has expertise in providing information security solutions and services based on best of breed products in each category of enterprise security.
Aided with an unparalleled resource pool of security architects with broad industry domain experience and a depth of skills across an array of IT security tools, the Security Practice can provide a cost effective business solution to address an organization's IT Security requirements.
The practice 's delivery methodology is driven by the "high quality", "high value addition" and "seamless onsite-offshore model" that enables better responsiveness, faster time-to-market and an unmatched value proposition to our customers. |
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- Security CoE
The Security Centre of Excellence is a group of security experts which spearheads technical excellence in the areas where customers stand to benefit from these innovations. The drivers for CoE initiatives include emerging trends as observed by industry analysts, technological shift, breakthroughs and client requirements
- Security Lab oratory
The state of the art Security Laboratory is equipped with multiple dedicated servers (Windows NT/2000/2003, UNIX, Linux and Solaris), along with implementation of a host of softwares, tools and applications. The lab can be utilised for assessing a host of COTS and custom built security products, tools and also to remotely interact with the client network. The lab has a secure and dedicated high speed link for this purpose.
- Personnel Expertise
Our strength lies in our execution expertise across various technologies and platforms. Security consultants from Cognizant are equipped with one or more of the following certifications
- CISSP, BS7799, CISA ,CISM
- Certified Ethical Hacker(CEH)
- Vendor certifications from Sun, CISCO and Microsoft
- Adherence to Leading Standards
Apart from following the leading quality and security standards like SEI-CMM and BS7799, the practice's competency lies in its approach towards the integration of application security controls with the SDLC to ensure that security aspects are defined throughout all the stages of SDLC.
- IPs & Frameworks
The group's experience has been translated to in-house developed frameworks, components and tools to assist its clients who want to leverage our view-point and the best practices gathered from a broad based experience and objective assessment of technology and product options
- Partnerships
The practice has partnered with the leading vendors such as

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