What's hot in security? We ask Dimension Data

What security technology and services do you specialise in?

We run business and technical security consulting, which includes everything from security policy to security technical assessment-type work. We do a lot of security strategy, security design and security review-type work.

When did your company first get involved in this area?

Dimension Data has had a security practice in some form for 20 years. We have about 140 dedicated security professionals in Australia and globally about 700 security professionals.

Which are your security credentials?

From a professional point of view, we've got high-level security credentials from all our vendor partners, as well as qualifications among our team members such as CISA and PCI. 

Who are your main distributors for security technology?

That depends on the vendors we partner with, so consequently we deal with all of them, but the ones we spend most time with would be Arrow, Westcon, Distribution Central and M.Tech. 

Heard about any cool developments in security lately?

The two major trends we see influencing security are the evolution of cybercrime – organisations are realising how sophisticated that particular adversary is becoming; and a stronger investment in detection and analytics capabilities – there's now a much better understanding of what we need to look for in real-time or pre-emptive security analytics.  

Can you tell us about a recent security deployment you have done?

We recently completed a very interesting certificate lifecycle management project. Most organisations struggle to manage their certificate and encryption key assets, and when major security issues do occur, correcting them has been quite a manual and time-consuming task. We implemented a very robust set of management tools to enable them to audit, track and manage throughout the organisation.

What is driving customers’ security projects?

At board level and cascading down, a greater understanding of cybercriminals and evolution of cybercrime. It's not about random attacks any more, we are dealing with organised crime: they understand the value of what organisations have and how it can be sold on the market. 

Information security is...

The fundamental blanket of protection that the Australian and global communities expect of their critical data.