The Bangladeshi hackers said their action was in response to the alleged killings by BSF on the border between the two countries. The Bangladeshi hackers group identifying itself as Black HAT Hackers claimed to have hacked thousands of Indian websites in retaliation to the cyber attacks by the Indian Cyber Army and Indishell which have hacked over 400 Bangladeshi websites. The Black HAT Hackers also claimed to have opposition to the Tapaimukh Dam.

Cyber security expert and Director at Torrid Networks, Dhruv Soi said, “With Bangladeshi hackers joining the cyber offensives against India, the Government of India must adopt better mechanisms to safeguard cyber space.” On the side note Soi adds, Government of India needs to work with professional and niche ethical hacking companies. Without claiming any promotion here, our company has proven its mettle to many critical government departments. Be it safeguarding Common Wealth Games website where international hacking groups sweared to hack it, or its a routine web application security. Whatsoever government departments we have worked with so far, we did a commendable job which is lauded by the management of those departments, resulting in business references for us.

On the contrary of this, most of the government departments are engaged with lowest-bid counters and the results comes quick, not so pleasant otherwise. Indian government needs to think a step ahead to fight the cyber criminal and convert its low-bid approach to high-tech deliverable, else the government online systems will always be seen as victim of this never ending cycle.

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Experts claim that the volume of such attacks increases on Independence Day and Republic Day. “The message posted by hackers from both countries carry a tone of jingoism and hatred. Now, hackers have started expressing their rage on 7/11 and 26/11 too,” said Dhruv Soi, a cyber crime expert and Director at Torrid Networks to MidDay news.

Meanwhile, cyber crime experts believe that the government should use such skilled resources to work for the nation. “The government should use the hackers the way China does. However, I think we are not yet ready to change the cyber security approach from sleeping mode to aggressive mode,” Soi added.

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The Pakistan Cyber Army, an unidentified group of Pakistani hackers, has announced that they will avenge the latest attack on as many as 30 Pakistan Government websites by Indian hackers.

Cyber security expert and Director at Torrid Networks Dhruv Soi says, “Cyber attacks between the two countries are getting more frequent than before and now we observe such attacks almost on daily basis. Cyber attacks will never die on the internet, and systems should be fully secured to handle it.”

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Torrid Networks, a global leader in application security consulting marked it as a minor incident in comparison to recent espionage operations carried out across the border. “I would say in comparison to the cyber attacks on Indian security and intelligence installations in the last two years, the defacement of Sonia Gandhi’s profile is a minor incident, but it still shows how vulnerable the Indian cyber space is,” said Dhruv Soi, a cyber security expert and director of Torrid Networks, which specialises in information security.

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The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Mumbai-based NSD that was launched on 26/11 this year for cooperation in the cyber security domian.

Cyber security expert and Director of Torrid Networks, Dhruv Soi told The Pioneer, “It is good that a national database of cyber security experts and ethical hackers is being developed. This, coupled with organisation of conferences on cyber security, will help in overcoming the challenge of finding talent in the cyber security domain, especially in times of crisis situation.”

Elaborating further, Soi said security and IT professionals present the latest research papers during such conferences and participants can analyse the emerging threats and correspondingly take counter measures.

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Shri. Alok Vijayant, Director, NTRO (National Technical Research Organization), Government of India kick-started the event citing the cyber security trends and government of India’s seriousness towards the increasing cyber attacks. NTRO is India’s sole Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) agency and develops technology capabilities in data gathering and processing, cyber security, cryptology systems, strategic hardware and software development and strategic monitoring.

Very first technical talk was presented by Director, Torrid Networks and a renowned cyber security expert, Dhruv Soi. Presentation was oriented towards automated exploitation frameworks, known as exploit kits or exploit packs. Presentation also included live demonstration on how hackers launch mass cyber attacks using these exploit packs.Event was attended by many government, defense and corporate organizations to make it a total participation of around 150-200.

Presentation ended up with question and answer round, where participants raised few questions those were well addressed by Torrid Networks. Presentation was liked by each and every participant. Torrid Networks aims to raise cyber security awareness amongst the government, industry and academia by presenting at such public security conferences.

Telecom Regulator for Telecommunication Business in India, TRAI, to protect its information assets utilizing Torrid Networks’ best-of-breed information security services

New Delhi – India, November 05, 2011: Torrid Networks (www.torridnetworks.com), a CERT-IN (Ministry of IT) empanelled security auditor and leading organization offering end-to-end information security and managed security services, is pleased to announce that Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has chosen Torrid Networks to provide information security services and protect its IT infrastructure. Selection has been made by conducting a regressive evaluation amongst a dozen of information security service providers across the India. Under this engagement, Torrid Networks is auditing the entire IT Infrastructure of TRAI, including Applications, Servers, Network and LAN.

Torrid Networks is already working with other “Maharatna” and “Navratna” organizations from Government of India. Company is also a trusted partner to over 100+ corporate customers and known for its strong ethical hacking capabilities, leadership in InfoSec space and achievements in the past.

“Looking at the past security breaches by the hackers across the border, Information security has become a sensitive matter for government organizations in India. Our unparalleled experience of conducting cyber investigations for both internal and cross-border cyber-attacks, counter-hacking operations and classified security research on Cyber Warfare has equipped us with the right vision to view the emerging threats from a larger perspective. We harness this distinguished vision with our well versed information security approach and methodology to protect the critical infrastructure and sensitive information.”, said Dhruv Soi, Founder at Torrid Networks.

About Torrid Networks
Torrid Networks is a leading information security organization providing information security services and solutions to the global customers. Torrid Networks provides its highly distinguished information security services to protect invaluable information assets and underlying infrastructure.

Leveraging on its best-of-breed information security services and vast experience in the InfoSec space, company helps organization meet complex security challenges and compliance mandates. Company carries expertise in Active, Pro-active, Reactive and Offensive security services.

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Cyber security expert Dhruv Soi said, “A full-proof strategy is the need of the hour. The Government should promote ethical hacking so that the best talent is drawn for information security of critical infrastructure.”

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Torrid Networks establishes security operations center for a fortune 500 company utilizing its private cloud, robust infrastructure and five years of rich experience in the information security domain

New Delhi – India, August 09, 2011: Torrid Networks (www.torridnetworks.com), a CERT-IN (Ministry of IT) empanelled security auditor and leading organization offering end-to-end information security and managed security services, today announced its engagement with a fortune 500 company to establish their security operations centre (SoC). SoC is established at Noida (India) based premises of Torrid Networks connected through VPNs and MPLS network to the 26 offices of its customer.

Torrid Networks is responsible for 24X7 real-time monitoring of threats being posed to different IT components and applications of its customer. With its outsourced security operation centre to Torrid Networks with around 20 dedicated security operations engineers, customer is reported with the proactive alerts for any malicious activity to help the customer in taking informed decisions and safeguarding its critical information assets. Torrid Networks is also responsible to assist its customers with the corporate fraud detection, cyber forensics and investigations by sharing the monitoring patterns of activities for anomalies, outlier and inside threats.

“Security operations centre is a critical function for every organization and we carry strong capabilities and robust infrastructure to cater the need.”, said Dhruv Soi, Founder at Torrid Networks. “Our IT infrastructure runs over the private cloud that provides us with the flexibility to scale-up our operations and accommodate new customers in no time. Five years of rich experience in information security domain makes us a reliable partner to manage security operations centre of our customers”, Soi added.

Company is already engaged with two more customers to manage their security operations centre and is working with more than 100 customers for different information security services including network penetration testing, application security, ISO 27001, information security trainings, malware reverse engineering and managed security services.

About Torrid Networks

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Delhi NCR, India, Torrid Networks is an end-to-end information security service provider with over 100 satisfied customers from different business verticals. Company is also an empanelled security auditor in CERT India under the Ministry of IT and carries expertise in Active, Pro-active, Reactive and Offensive security services. For more information, please visit the corporate website: www.torridnetworks.com

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