Snapshot of skills and competence of CERT-In empanelled IT Security Auditing Organisation

  1. Name, Location of the empanelled IT Security Auditing Organisation : pss IT Services, Kolkata

  2. Carrying out Information Security Audits since : July 1999

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

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

  5. IT Security Audit Tools used (owned, in possession) :
    Freeware : 0
    Commercial : 6
    Proprietary: 0
    Total Nos. of Audit Tools : 6
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  6. IT Security Audit Methodology : COBIT, ISO17799, COSO

  7. IT Security Audits carried out since empanelment till now :
    Govt. : 0
    PSU : 2
    Private : 10
    Total Nos. of Security Audits : 12

  8. Business domain of auditee organisations : Tobacco, Banking, Manufacturing, Oil & Natural Gas, Tea, Apparel, Cement, Finance.

  9. Typical applications in use by auditee organisations : SAP, e-Payment, Banking, Trading, Accounting

  10. Typical bandwidth (maximum) of any auditee organisations :
    Internal Bandwidth (LAN / Intranet) : 2 Mbps
    External Bandwidth (WAN / Internet) : 2 Mbps

  11. Networked Infrastructure details of an organizations audited with most complex network :
    No. of Computer Systems : 3000
    No. of servers : 50
    No. of switches : 50
    No. of routers : 0
    No. of firewalls : 10
    No. of IDS' : 10

  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).