Snapshot of skills and competence of CERT-In Empanelled Information Security Auditing Organisation

1. Name, Location of the Empanelled Information Security Auditing Organisation : Astral Consulting Ltd., Coimbatore
   
   
2. Carrying out Information Security Audits since : 2003
   
   
3. Technical manpower deployed for information security audits :
   CISSPs : 0
   BS7799 / ISO27001 LAs : 1
   CISAs / CISMs: 6
   DISAs / ISAs : 3
   Total Nos. of Technical Personnel : 16
   
   
4. Outsourcing of External Information Security Auditors / Experts : No
   
   
5. Information Security Audit Tools used (owned, in possession) :
   Freeware : 7
   Commercial : 4
   Proprietary: 0
   Total Nos. of Audit Tools : 11
   (Click here for details of the information security audit tools)
   
   
6. Information Security Audit Methodology : OSSTM, OWASP, ISO/IEC 27001, CoBIT, ITIL
   
   
7. Information Security Audits carried out since empanelment till now :
   Govt. : 2
   PSU : 3
   Private : 5
   Total Nos. of Security Audits : 10
   
   
8. Business domain of auditee organisations : Telecom, Airport, Banking, Financial, Manufacturing, Automotive, Textiles, Sugar, Insurance, BPO
   
   
9. Typical applications in use by auditee organisations : ERP Solutions, Home grown applications
   
   
10. Typical bandwidth (maximum) of any auditee organisations :
    Internal Bandwidth (LAN / Intranet) : 100 Mbps
    External Bandwidth (WAN / Internet) : 5 Mbps
    
    
11. LAN Infrastructure details of an organizations audited with most complex network :
    No. of Servers : 620
    No. of Computers : 15000
    No. of Routers : 45
    No. of Switches : 2200
    No. of Firewalls : 2
    No. of IDS' : 1
    
    
12. Ability to carry out vulnerability assessment and penetration test : Yes
    
    

Key : NA = Not Available (data not provided by the CERT-In empanelled Information Security Auditing Organisation).