Tata Communications Launches New Vulnerability Management Service (VMS) With Qualys

Mumbai, India, November 5 (ots/PRNewswire) -

- VMS to Improve Security and Ensure Compliance for Organizations

Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of
communications today announced the global availability of its
Vulnerability Management Service (VMS)
(http://www.tatacommunications.com/enterprise/security/cloud.asp.)
Tata Communications' VMS is part of its Managed Security Services
suite and is built upon Qualys' industry leading QualysGuard(R)
vulnerability management and compliance solutions.

Tata Communications' VMS provides discovery and mapping of IT
assets, asset prioritization, vulnerability assessment, remediation
tracking, and comprehensive reporting. The service automates the
process of enterprise vulnerability management and supports policy
compliance initiatives.

IT organizations are increasingly driven by the need to comply
with regulatory, statutory, industry, and internal requirements such
as PCI DSS, SB1386, HIPPA, Sarbanes Oxley, and the EU Data Privacy
Directive. Achieving and maintaining compliance with these
requirements demands that IT organizations institute ongoing
vulnerability assessment and remediation procedures to ensure
reasonable efforts are made to protect data and business processes.

According to Forrester Research, "Identifying vulnerabilities is
an essential step towards risk mitigation. The key is to establish a
systematic process for discovering new and relevant vulnerabilities."
(1)

"Business is dependent on the internet, but increasingly
sophisticated threats targeting internet infrastructure have exploded
at the same time that requirements for ensuring due compliance are
increasing. Corporate IT staff are in the unenviable position of
having to lower operational risk, improve application availability
and assure ongoing compliance to auditors - all in an environment
where corporate budgets are tightening," said John Landau, Senior
Vice President of Global Managed Services for Tata Communications.
"Effectively managing vulnerabilities to best-practice levels,
in-house, is an expensive and difficult undertaking for businesses of
any size. Mistakes can lead to crippling service downtime, potential
data corruption, and the risk of being non-compliant. Tata
Communications' vulnerability management service helps organizations
wrap their arms around which critical systems need patching at a
drastically reduced total cost of ownership. There is no investment
in capital or special skills required. The service allows customers
both large and small to offload the grinding technical and
operational aspects of vulnerability management while retaining
control over decision-making and the actual remediation process."

Tata Communications' VMS enables IT security and system
administration staff to leapfrog the complexities around assessment
and information management and focus on the remediation tasks that
require business and technical judgment, leveraging the automated
capabilities that are foundational element of the new service.
Qualys' vulnerability management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
solution is already a standard for more than 35% of the Fortune 100,
and Tata Communications is now able to deliver the same capabilities
to its customers.

"Managing security risk and compliance initiatives is a challenge
that organizations are struggling with on daily basis" said Philippe
Courtot, Qualys CEO. "Our partnership with Tata Communications allows
them to offer their global customer base a proven, scalable and cost
effective solution to help these organizations improve their security
and streamline compliance initiatives. We are pleased to partner with
such a world class organization and look forward to working with
them."

References

(1) "Operationalizing Application Vulnerability Management",
February 2008.

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, is
a leading global provider of a new world of communications. The
emerging markets communications leader leverages its advanced
solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and
pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national and
Indian enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.

Tata Communications' range of services include transmission, IP,
converged voice, mobility, managed network connectivity, hosting and
storage, managed security, managed collaboration and business
transformation for global enterprises and service providers, as well
as Internet, retail broadband and content services for Indian
consumers.

The Tata Global Network encompasses one of the most advanced and
largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with
connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300 Pops, and more
than 1 million square feet of data center and co-location facilities.

Tata Communications' unique emerging market depth and breadth of
reach includes a national fiber backbone network and access to
network in over 60 cities and 125 Pops in India, strategic
investments in South African converged services operator, Neotel, Sri
Lanka and Nepal and, subject to fulfillment of conditions precedent,
a 50% ownership in China Enterprise Communications (CEC) providing
full country VPN coverage in China.

Servicing customers from its offices in over 80 cities in 40
countries, Tata Communications is the number one global international
wholesale voice operator and number one provider of international
long distance, enterprise data and Internet services in India, the
Company was named "Best Wholesale Carrier" at the World
Communications Awards in 2006, "BestPan-Asian Wholesale Provider" at
the 2006 and 2007 Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale
Telecommunications Awards and was awarded "Best Progress in Emerging
Markets" at the 2008 Mobile Communication Awards.

Tata Communications Limited along with its global subsidiaries,
(Tata Communications), is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the
National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New
York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)

For Information on Tata Communications' MSS offerings:
http://www.tatacommunications.com/enterprise/security/

About Qualys

Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of on-demand IT security
risk and compliance management solutions-delivered as a service.
Qualys' Software-as-a-Service solutions are can be deployed
worldwide, providing customers an immediate and continuous view of
their security and compliance postures. The QualysGuard(R) service is
used today by more than 3,500 organizations in 85 countries,
including 35 of the Fortune Global 100 and performs more than 200
million IP audits per year. Qualys has the largest vulnerability
management deployment in the world at a Fortune Global 50 company.
Qualys has established strategic agreements with leading managed
service providers and consulting organizations including BT,
Etisalat, Fujitsu, IBM, I(TS)2, LAC, SecureWorks, Symantec, Tata
Communications, TELUS, and VeriSign. For more information, go to
http://www.qualys.com.

http://www.qualys.com/products/qg_suite/vulnerability_management/

http://www.qualys.com/products/qg_suite/policy_compliance/

http://www.qualys.com/products/qg_suite/pci/

Media Contacts:
Abhishek Prakash
Tata Communications
+91-92232-07207
abhishek.prakash@tatacommunications.com
Janice Goveas
Tata Communications
+91-92233-94575
janice.goveas@tatacommunications.com
Media Agency
STC Associates
+1-212-725-1900 x204
kristen@stcassociates.com

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Contact:
Media Contacts: Abhishek Prakash, Tata Communications,
+91-92232-07207, abhishek.prakash@tatacommunications.com; Janice
Goveas, Tata Communications, +91-92233-94575,
janice.goveas@tatacommunications.com; Media Agency, STC Associates,
+1-212-725-1900 x204, kristen@stcassociates.com