Snapshot of skills and competence of CERT-In Empanelled Security Auditor

  1. Name, Location of the Empanelled Security Auditing organisation: Covansys (India), Chennai

  2. Carrying out Information Security Audits since : January 2000

  3. Technical manpower deployed for security audits :
    CISSPs : 1
    BS7799 / ISO27001 LAs : 5
    CISAs : 1
    DISAs / ISAs : 0
    Total Nos. of Technical Personnel : 18

  4. Outsourcing of External IT Security Auditors / Experts : No

  5. Security Audit Tools used (owned, in possession) :
    Freeware : 8
    Commercial : 2
    Proprietary: 2
    Total Nos. of Audit Tools : 12
    (Click here for details of the audit tools)

  6. Security Audit Methodology : BS7799, COBIT

  7. Security Audits carried out since empanelment till now :
    Govt. : NA
    PSU : NA
    Private : NA
    Total Nos. of Security Audits : NA

  8. Business domain of auditee organisations :
    Apparel, Financial, Petro

  9. Typical applications in use by auditee organisations :
    Client-Server Appl, Database

  10. Typical bandwidth (maximum) of any auditee organisations :
    Internal Bandwidth (LAN / Intranet) : 1 M bps
    External Bandwidth (WAN / Internet) : 56 K bps

  11. Networked Infrastructure details of an organizations audited with most complex network :
    No. of servers : 10
    No. of Computer Systems : 220
    No. of routers : 0
    No. of switches : 8
    No. of firewalls : 1
    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).