DCS International thriving in cyber crime mitigation
DCS International, formed in 2002 with the focus on ‘protecting the net’ as stated in their tagline, has over the years introduced a number of information security products focusing on specific requirements in the field ,such as protection against malware, securing data and ensuring confidential information remain classified.
The company partnered in 2009 with ESET, a leading antimalware solution. DCS International Director Shihan Annon explaining the benefits of the software stated, that the beauty of ESET is that being an anti- malware, it does not consume resources, which is well suited to the local context of IT Infrastructure solutions.
“Any organization’s first level defense should be protecting their end point assets and therefore with ESET, the first level of protection focus is given to organizations and businesses,” he stated.
He further affirmed that Finance is an obvious target for such attacks, whilst noting that mobile device attacks are also growing at a rapid speed. “As most of the sensitive personal/ corporate data reside in it, we can safely assume attacks tend to grow and vulnerability of such devices are high , whilst protections mechanisms will also have a great demand due to this situation”, he said.
He also pointed out that infrastructure based attacks as seen in the recent past , with incidents reported in disabling massive power plants, commuters systems (railway, motor traffic etc), and Government entities are also likely to be under threat. “Most of the countries are adapting offensive and defensive mechanisms which they believe to be next the historic milestone of world evolution. This will eventually be seen as the next super power. This is now known as Cyber warfare. According to statistics, ‘Cyber Mafia’ or the underworld cyber crime market, is much bigger than the entire world security market space, which is believed to be U$ 20Billion. It ranges from customizing virus to Botnet supply for DDOS attacks on hourly rate basis ,which can be used to paralyze even an entire nation”, said Annon.
Speaking on how often such crimes take place, he stated that it depends on countries and different contexts. “Organizations therefore must give high priority for awareness and education of cyber crimes especially to executive staff,” he asserted , adding that it does not make sense to have high technologies in the companies , unless those within the company is aware of the threats and the uses of the systems.
In this regard, DCS International offers a total system solution to companies to upgrade their systems and be updated on such issues, so as to take immediate steps in case of a cyber crime.
Annon also affirmed that DCS is very keen to explore the R&D facility for cyber security and stated that the company will be introducing new product lines for the next level of defense for information security.