IT Security Solution Providers & IS Auditors

IT Security Solution Providers & IS Auditors

Profile of Digital Age

OUR MISSION

To offer our Customers high quality IS Audit and Information Technology Consultancy Services, Management Consultancy, BPO services and Training relating to professional courses, soft skills that will positively impact their revenues and provide tangible benefits that enhance their competitive advantage.

OUR MOTTO

“Business with

Wisdom and Growth with Assurance.”

OUR VISION

“To be amongst top 10 leaders in IT Security Audit and Consultancy Services in India by 2015 and globally by 2020”.

QUALITY POLICY:

We have a very clearly defined & simple quality policy that states that “We should endeavor to be the best in our areas of operations by:

Ensuring Total Customer Satisfaction all times by following best practices.

Empowering our “People Resources” to take pride themselves and the ownership of Quality.

Endeavoring to create an Entrepreneurial Environment to conduct meaningful business.”

The Company was incorporated with CISA, CISSP, ISO9001 & ISO 27001 IRCA Certified Lead Auditors as Promoter Directors. The Directors and consultants have vast experience in various fields like ISO 9001 Certification, ISO 27001 Certification, IT Security /IS Audits, Consultancy, Training, BPO activitiesetc.

DIGITAL AGE has the strengths and ability to design and deliver IT Security Management Solutions with scale and longevity where risks are finally mitigated in the process by leveraging available enterprise resources for turnaround and major security management experience to our clients.

DIGITAL AGE has an exclusive Quality & IT Security Department with CISAs, ISAs, CISSPs, CISM qualified professionals. Digital Age has Professionals who are ISO 27001 IRCA, UK Certified ISMS Lead Auditors, ISO 9001:2000 IRCA, UK Certified Lead Auditors, ISO 20000 Lead Auditors, ISO 14000 Lead Auditors and Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) well experienced in the Finance, Banking & IT domains. Our Professionals are capable of implementing IT Security Certification, ISO Quality Certification, Software Audits and software development life cycle. We also have professionals with technical knowledge who can take up network auditing and vulnerability and penetration testing assignments.

DIGITAL AGE - SERVICES

Digital Age is empanelled as IT SECURITY AUDITORS by CERT-In, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Department of Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi for full scope IT Security Audit.

Digital Age is empanelled as IT SECURITY AUDITORS by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Department of Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi.

Ourservices include wide range of Information Technology & Quality related activities which are as under.

IT SECURITY AUDITS

Audit of Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of networks.
BCP/DRP Implementation / Audit.
Due Diligence System Audit.
Forensic and fraud detection services
Internal Audits for ISO 27001(ISMS), ISO 20000(ITSM), ISO 14001 (EMS), ISO 9001 (QMS) Audits.
IS Audit for Certifying Authorities / Registration Authorities as per IT Act, 2000.
IS Audit for CTCL / Internet Banking of NSE Members / IML Audit for BSE Members.
IS Audit of CBS / TBA / ALPM Branches of the Banks including migration Audits.
IS Audits / IT Security Audits for Applications / Data Centers /DR Sites / Data Migration Audits / Network Security Audits including ERP implementations.
IS Audits/Information Security Audit for Data Centers / other organizations including Post Migration Audits & CBS Package Training.
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Act Audit.
SAS 70 Audit / HIPPA Audit.
Software / Package Audit / Testing.

IT CONSULTANCY

Man Power Support and Man Power Provision Services.
Certifying Authority (CA) / Registration Authority (RA) setting up of Office -Consultancy and Audits.
Computerization of the Banks under TBA / Core Banking Solution.
Consultancy and Certification for TIA- 942 implementation.
Critical review of Web Site design including security issues
Developing IT Security Apex level policy, IT Sub-policies like Network Policy, Backup Policy, Password Policy, Email Policy, Firewall & Router Policies, Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) etc.
Evaluation and implementation of RTGS in Banks.
Forensic and fraud detection services.
Incidence Response Management Solution.
ISO / IES 20000-1:2005 - Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) Standards Implementation / Audit.
ISO 14001:2004 - Environmental Management System (EMS) Standards Implementation / Audit.
ISO 27001- Information Security Management System (ISMS) Standards Implementation / Audit.
ISO 9001:2008 - Quality Management System Standard (QMS) Implementation / Audit.
Log reviews using CAAT tools.
Services for Selection, Technical Evaluation and Commercial Evaluation of Vendors for TBA Package scalable to Core Banking Solution / CBS Application including drafting of SLAs, Agreements, engagement letters etc.
Setting up of Data Centre and Disaster Recovery Site.

INDUSTRIAL & MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY

Business Process Excellence & BPR
Corporate Laws, Secretarial matters and Corporate Governance
Industrial Mergers Amalgamation, Project Management & Loan Syndication
Tax Management – Direct & Indirect Taxes

IT BPO ACTIVITIES

Any Time Payment Machines (ATPs) / KIOSKs for 24 Hours payment of electricity bills for BESCOM/ HESCOM / Municipal Corporation/ Water Board etc. Also includes other utility payments like water Bill, Tax payment, telephone and mobile bills payment etc.
Manpower support for Internal Audits and BPO activities.
Scanning and documentation.

TRAINING

CEH, CHFI, ECSA, LPT, ECSP, ECIH, ECDR, ECVT
CISA, CISSP, CISM, CSQA
IT Security Corporate Programs like ITIL, CEH, Software Testing etc.
ICWA, ACS, ACA
Soft skills like Personality Development, Stress Management, Time Management, Leadership Skills & Public Speaking.
Training in IS Audits & IT Security.
Training on Internal Audits which covers wide range of activities like finance, systems, HR, Stock, processes, purchase, marketing activities with a special emphasis on improving the skills of internal auditors, collecting evidences, sampling, interview and presentation techniques.
Corporate Customized Trainings.

SERVICES TO THE BANKING SECTOR

CONSULTANCY :

Empanelled as IT CONSULTANTS for the year 2008-09by the Karnataka State Co-operative Apex Bank Ltd., H.O., Bangalore for computerization of the Bank under TBA / Core Banking Solution.

- Provided Consultancy services for Selection, Technical Evaluation and Commercial Evaluation of Vendors for TBA Package scalable to Core Banking Solution.

Empanelled as IT CONSULTANTS for the year 2008-09by the Karnataka State Co-operative Apex Bank Ltd., H.O., Bangalore for implementation of RTGS.

Empanelled as IT CONSULTANTS for the year 2009-10by the Bangalore, Bangalore Rural & Ramanagara District Co-operative Central Bank Ltd., H.O., Bangalore for Computerization of Bank under TBA/ Core Banking Solution.

- Provided Consultancy services for Selection, Technical Evaluation and Commercial Evaluation of Vendors for TBA Package scalable to Core Banking Solution.

Provided Consultancy services for Drafting and vetting of purchase order and SLA and NDA agreement.

Provided Consultancy services for IT strategy, Core Banking Solution, Selection of Vendors for a leading Bank in Ethopia during the year 2008.

B. IS AUDITING :

Conducted Core Banking Data Centre Audit, Disaster Recovery Site Audit, Internet Banking Audit, IS Audit of ATM / Debit card Operation, Vulnerability Assessment (VA) and Penetration Testing (PT) of Network of Indian Overseas Bank, Head Office, Chennai.

Conducted Core Banking Data Centre Audit and Disaster Recovery Site Audit and Vulnerability Assessment (VA) and Penetration Testing (PT) of networks of the Dhanalakshmi Bank Ltd., Thrissur.

Concurrent IS Auditors for Karnataka Bank Ltd., Core Banking Data Centre, Bangalore and Core Banking DR Site, Mangalore during the period April, 2005 to June, 2007 and also from January, 2009 onwards.

Provided IS Audit of TBA Package – “Bancmate” application and Migration audit during the year 2008-09 for Chikmagalur-Kodagu Grameena Bank, Chikmagalur, an unit Sponsored by Corporation Bank.

Provided IS Audit of Bank Software – “Banksree” implementation audit during the year 2008 for Andhra Pradesh Grameen Vikas Bank , H.O. Warangal, an unit sponsored by State Bank of India.

Conducted RA Audits for State Bank of India, LHO, Bangalore, State Bank of India, LHO, Chandigarh, State Bank of India, LHO, Chennai, State Bank of India, LHO, Hyderabad, State Bank of India, LHO, New Delhi, State Bank of India, LHO, Thiruvananthapuram, State Bank of India, Payment Systems Group(PSG), Mumbai, State Bank of India, LHO, Ahmadabad, State Bank of India, LHO, Kolkata, State Bank of India, LHO, Bhubaneshwar.

Conducted RA Audits of Associate Banks of SBI for State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Travancore, Thiruvananthapuram, State Bank of Indore.

Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd. - IT Security Audit of Data Centre, Disaster Recovery Centre, Treasury Department, International Banking Division, RTGS Centre and HUB Centers.

SERVICES TO THE GOVERNMENT

Empanelled as IT SECURITY AUDITORS by CERT-In, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Department of Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi.

Empanelled as IT SECURITY AUDITORS by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Department of Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi.

Indian Navy, Western Naval Command -MAN, Mumbai, Ministry of Defence, Government of India – IT Security Audit and Vulnerability Assessment (VA) and Penetration Testing (PT) of huge network.

Indian Air Force, Ministry of Defence, Government of India on behalf of ECIL, Hyderabad, Consultancy support for setting up of Certifying Authority (CA) Office, RA Offices for 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13.

IT Security Auditors for IDRBT Certifying Authority (CA) as per IT Act, 2000 from 2007-08 till date. Also Internal Auditors for half-yearly audits during 2007- to 2009.

IT Security Auditors for Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Registration Authority (RA) as per IT Act, 2000 for the year 2008 covering all RA Offices across the Country.

MMTC Ltd. New Delhi – SECURITY AUDIT of Corporate Website covering Risk Profiling & Design Review, Application Code Review, Web/application Server Security Assessment including patches and updates, detailed configuration review & auditing and logging module review, Database Security Assessment, Application Security Assessment including application walkthrough, Deployment architecture Review, Process: User & change management, backup process etc.

Naval Institute of Aeronautical Technology (NIAT), Government of Kerala, Kochi Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing for NIAT during 2009-10.

IT Consultant for Karnataka State Horticulture Department, services to the Government.

Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd., Haryana State Government Undertaking – Security Audit of ‘SAARANSH’ Software.

Website Audits “Single Table Clearance System” of Udyog Bandhu, Government of U.P.

NTPC Limited, Government of India – Conducted Security Audit of LAN at Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Project, Kerala during 2010-11.

Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd. (APTRANSCO) Government of Andhra Pradesh undertaking - Fixing/ Rectifying the problems identified during the security assessment examined and penetration tests conducted on different networks with different applications of APTRANSCO.

Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd. (APTRANSCO) - Formulation of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for the Network systems, Servers, Networks with different components, Operating systems, Databases and Disaster Recovery etc. on different networks with different applications of APTRANSCO.

SERVICES TO CORPORATE SECTOR

Consultancy services for 3i Infotech Ltd. in connection for setting up of the Certifying Authority (CA) Infrastructure / Data Centre/ Disaster Recovery Site/ Technology / Certifications / Documentation / Processes and licensing as per the norms prescribed by the Controller of Certifying Authority (CCA), Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India.

Full-time IT CONSULTANTS since 2005 till March, 2009 for Bangalore Stock Exchange Ltd. and BgSE Financials Ltd. Also Systems Auditors for annual IS Audit of Bangalore Stock Exchange as per the requirements of SEBI.

IS Audit and Review of Business Continuity Plan for ING Life Insurance Pvt. Ltd.

Conducted SAM Audit for Serve All Enterprise Solutions Ltd., MNC, Division of Computech Corporation, USA – Software Deployment Identification & SAM Process Validation, Software Reconciliation, Software Compliance GAP Analysis (Actual Licensing Position), SAM Current State Assessment and SAM Best Practice Recommendations.

OCWEN Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd., MNC – Internal Control IT Security Audit as per the requirements of Sarbanes’ Oxley Act (SOX).

Semler Research Center Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore - Implementation of ISO 27001:2005 ISMS Standard and conducted Vulnerability Assessment(VA) and Penetration Testing(PT) during 2010-11.

Gem Sugars Ltd. Implementation of ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System (QMS) Standard and ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) Standard at sugar and power manufacturing plant at Kundargi and also at Corporate Office, Bangalore.

KEY PERSONNEL

1Shri Dinesh S Shastri CISA, CISM, CEH, CHFI, CSQA,CAIIB, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001, Certified Lead Auditors, Professional and served in Bank for more than two decades.

Experienced Quality Management System (QMS) and IS Security Professional and ex-banker with experience over two decades.

He is Past President of ISACA, (Till now known as Information Systems Audit & Control Association), Bangalore India Chapter (2003-04 and 2004-05). During his tenure the Bangalore Chapter received Several Awards like Best Chapter in Asia (2004), Best Newsletter Global Award (2004), Best Website Gold Level Global Award (2004). He is Program Director for 3 days intensive training programs on COBIT & BS7799 IT Security for C & A G, Government ofIndia. He is also Programme Director for 4 days IS Audit Training Programmes conducted by the Company.
He is a Lead Auditor for Certifying the Companies for ISO 9001, ISO27001 (previously called BS7799) ISMS Standards for NQA, a UK based Certifying Body having Indian Headquarters at Bangalore.
He is regular faculty for Information Technology Act, 2000 for training programmes of C & A G and all training programmes of the Company.
Other than IS Audits of various Banks, he has completed many assignments some of which are:
ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 implementation for Gem Sugars Ltd., Sugar and Electricity manufacturing company having factory at Kundargi and HO at Cunnigham Road, Bangalore.
ISO 9001 Auditor / Consultants for various organizations like Manappuram Group of Industries, Cambridge Ltd., State Bank of Travancore, PKN Polymers Pvt. Ltd., Cauvery Engineering etc.
ISO 27001(BS 7799 )– Gap Analysis, Risk Mitigation Plan, Vulnerability Assessment for the world’s largest media organization, viz. Times of India Group, Mumbai in April and May, 2004
ISO 27001 (BS 7799) Lead Auditor of NQA –ISO27001 (BS7799) Certification Body.
ISO27001 (BS7799) Security Training to Senior Audit Officers of the Comptroller Auditor General of India(C & A G)

Y U Rao., ME, Experienced Administrator has more than three decades of experience in Government sector in various capacities.
Shri Chandrasekharaiah T . G., CISA, ACA, SAP Consultant, experienced IS Auditor. His specialization is in implementation of ERP Packages particularly SAP.
Shri P. L. N. Sarma, CISA, CeISB, CAIIB, LLB, AICWA - Senior IS Auditor and Ex Banker having experience of more than 3 decades.

Shri K S Sesha Prakash CISA, CAIIB, CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, BCCS, Diploma in Computers, with experience of more than 26 years in IT Department of ING Vysya Bank Ltd.

SPECIAL ADVISORS

Shri R N Guptha, Chartered Accountant with more than 2 decades management experience.

Shri Rajgopal Tholpadi, CISA, CSQA, PMP, IT Quality & CMM Expert having more than 25 years of experience in banking and IT industry.

PRESENCE OF OFFICE - LOCATIONS AND BRANCH OFFICE HEADS:

HUBLI : Shri Yogesh Shastri – IS Auditor

HYDERABAD : Shri P. L. N. Sarma – Experienced Ex- Banker and senior IS Auditor

MANGALORE : Smt. A Veena – Experienced Administrator

MUMBAI : Smt. Geetha U S – Experienced Administrator & Branch Head

MYSORE : Shri Y Umesha Rao – Managing Director

INDORE &

UJJAIN : Shri Srinivasa Reddy – Branch Manager

RECOGNITION OF DIGITAL AGE:

Empanelled as IT SECURITY AUDITORS by CERT-In, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Department of Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi for full scope IT Security Audit.

Implemented Project of Business Continuity Plan of ING Life Insurance Company Ltd. for M/s Vinciti Networks Pvt. Ltd., AQ, E4E Labs House, Hosur Road, Bangalore.

IS Auditors for Corporation Bank, Disaster Recovery Site of Data Centre, Mangalore.

Annual IT Security Auditors for IDRBT Certifying Authority (CA) as per IT Act, 2000 for the years 2007 and 2008. Also Internal Auditors for half-yearly audits.

Internal CA Auditors for e-mudhra Certifying Authority.

Way 2 Wealth Brokers Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore - conducted detailed Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing of the huge Network spread across India.

Annual IT Security Auditors for Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Registration Authority (RA) as per IT Act, 2000 for the year 2008 covering all RA Offices across the Country.

Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd. - IT Security Audit of Data Centre, Disaster Recovery Centre, Treasury Department, International Banking Division, RTGS Centre and HUB Centers.

Empanelled as IT CONSULTANTS for the year 2006-07by Syndicate Bank, Corporate Office, Bangalore.

Full-time IT CONSULTANTS since 2005 for Bangalore Stock Exchange Ltd. and BgSE Financials Ltd. Also Systems Auditors for annual IS Audit of Bangalore Stock Exchange as per the requirements of SEBI.

IT Consultant for Karnataka State Horticulture Department, Government of Karnataka.

Security Audit of software “SAARANSH” of Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd., Government of Haryana, Application Audit of “Banksri” TBA Package for Andhra Pradesh Gramin Vikas Bank, “Bankmate” TBA Package for Chickmaglur Kodugu Gramin Bank, “Banking Wizard” TBA Package of Antares Systems Ltd., “Banksoft” Audit of TBA Package of Processware Systems Pvt. Ltd., Audit of “e- Bank” TBA Package of Internet Systems Ltd., Audit of “e-factoring” package of Canabank Factors Ltd., Audit of IBAR in-house developed package of Vijaya Bank, Treasury Package Audit of Vijaya Bank etc.