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Designs and techniques to secure our systems
By Suman Ravikumar, SiliconIndia
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Tuesday, 05 October 2010, 01:51 IST
Bangalore: Computer security is critical in almost any technology-driven industry which operates on computer systems. Computer security can also be referred to as computer safety. The issues of computer based systems and addressing their countless vulnerabilities are an integral part of maintaining an operational industry.
There are various strategies and techniques used to design security systems. However there are few, if any, effective strategies to enhance security. Furthermore, by breaking the system up into smaller components, the complexity of individual components is reduced. In doing so we can maintain the system's quality attributes, among them confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and assurance.
"To strategize system security it is very important to know where the main source of vulnerability is. Security is at breach when you have Intel inside but intelligence outside. Information overload is one of the reasons to bypass security." said Thiruvadinathan Annadorai (Thiru) who is the Principal Consultant for Risk & Compliance, Security services at MindTree . While addressing the SiliconIndia Security conference Thiru said we should have the knowledge of the big picture and security should be our mandatory ingredient.
Throwing more light on how to design a secured system, Rajiv Motwani who is the Manager, Product Security Engineering at Citrix R&D India said "server virtualization, virtual storage solutions and patch management is very important to have real security of information and consolidation of data."
Security systems are to be standardized in India. Otherwise, misuse of resources will damage reputation of the company, loss of business and revenue is affected. It sends out a wrong signal to other staffs. It slows down the availability of resources and ultimately the productivity of the company is hit.
The architecture of security systems should be planned keeping the big picture in mind so that enough and standard norms are applied to maintain the systems quality to face any challenges in future.
