Cybersecurity

Information security consulting

Our security experts will consult you on the possible ways of monitoring the robustness of your cyberenvironment against security threats, detecting vulnerabilities in your network or apps, improving the performance of your information security solutions, and ensuring the protection of your sensitive data.

Security testing of IT infrastructures and its components

We uncover security loopholes in the components of our customers’ IT environments. ScienceSoft’s security team carefully checks the protection level of your IT infrastructure and defines measures to reduce the number of security weaknesses inside your network and apps.

The complex of security testing services includes:

Infrastructure security audit

Our security team assesses your IT infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities in the following areas:

• Security policies and procedures.
• Security monitoring tools.
• Physical access control.
• Configuration management.
• Version control.

Compliance testing

Our security engineers perform automated and manual scanning of your IT environment and its elements to ensure your compliance with PCI DSS, HIPAA, and other regulations and standards. On the basis of the testing results, the security team provides you with a detailed attestation letter.

Vulnerability assessment

ScienceSoft performs automated and manual security evaluation to detect vulnerabilities in their customers’ IT infrastructures. Our security testing team identifies, quantifies, and ranks network security weaknesses. Based on the assessment results, we give our customers recommendations to help them to eliminate security risks.

Penetration testing

ScienceSoft’s security testing team pinpoints system vulnerabilities, validates existing security measures, and provides a detailed remediation roadmap. Equipped with the special tools and industry-specific test scenarios, the team performs penetration testing according to one of the three approaches:

• Black box testing. We work in life-like conditions having strictly limited knowledge on your network and no information on the security policies, network structure, software and network protection used.
• Grey box testing. We examine your system having some information on your network, such as user login details, architecture diagrams or the network’s overview.
• White box testing. We identify potential weak points by using admin rights and access to server configuration files, database encryption principles, source code or architecture documentation.

Stress testing: Emulation of DDoS / DoS attacks

ScienceSoft’s security testing team evaluates the stability of your infrastructure and its components by testing it beyond normal operational capacity with the use of special tools such as Siege and Apache JMeter. We apply our expertise to emulate denial of service (DoS) or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against your network or applications to:

• Determine whether the robustness of software or hardware is satisfactory under stress conditions (e.g., heavy network traffic, process loading).
• Identify potential errors that can occur in case of system overloading.

Security code review

Each programming language has its quirks that may cause security flaws during the development phase. ScienceSoft’s security experts detect existing loopholes before your applications ‘go live.’

Our security engineers conduct automated and manual security code review and engage senior developers and architects (if needed) to help you to:

• Detect mistakes introduced into an application during its development to improve software quality and increase its protection level.
• Highlight weak points in the source code of your app where vulnerabilities may potentially occur.
• Find the most cost-efficient ways to eliminate security weaknesses identified in applications.

Mobile device management and mobile application management

With the proliferation of mobile devices, mobile applications and programs used within corporate networks, enterprises face the need to manage and secure their usage. ScienceSoft offers their expertise in applying the appropriate device management policies and implementing control measures to the installation of new mobile apps.

Our security testing team has a wide experience in correctly installing and tuning mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) solutions like Microsoft Intune to ensure mobile security. We can fine-tune mobile security services you choose to apply and set the necessary policies properly for you to:

• Ensure the compliance of devices (both corporate and personal) and applications with your internal security policies and requirements.
• Control how your employees exploit and share corporate information via their mobile devices and the apps they use.

Cloud security

ScienceSoft helps their customers to secure their cloud solutions. Being a Gold Microsoft Business Partner, we have the necessary experience to tune special security components, such as Azure Security Center, allowing security management and threat protection across cloud workloads.

ScienceSoft’s security engineers can apply appropriate cloud security measures and configure cloud protection solutions to ensure:

• Constant and efficient monitoring of the security of your cloud applications.
• Analysis of the event logs from your cloud solutions and prompt detection of suspicious activities.
• Remediation of security weaknesses potentially existing in your cloud environment.
• Application of the necessary security policies to make your cloud solutions meet the appropriate security standards.

Web application security

ScienceSoft’s security experts ensure proper protection of a website, a web app, or web services.

• Our security testing team carries out vulnerability assessment to check whether the proper encryption, authentication and other security measures are applied in a web app, a web service or a website.
• Upon the evaluation results, our security engineers provide customers with valuable recommendations on how to improve the protection level of their web solutions.
• We offer penetration testing services (as a one-time or a regular service) to provide customers with the detailed information on real security threats they may face and identify the most critical security weaknesses to let our customers prioritize remediation measures and apply necessary security patches.

SIEM

ScienceSoft’s security engineers offer their knowledge of IBM Security QRadar to provide you with a 360-degree view of your IT environment and obtain accurate analytical data on security events in real time with a QRadar-based SIEM solution.

We deliver a full range of QRadar-related services.

• QRadar consulting services. We help you to develop a relevant strategy to integrate QRadar smoothly into your corporate IT landscape.
• QRadar deployment architecture design. We draw up your QRadar’s technical design in accordance with collaboratively pre-set system requirements and make QRadar an integral part of your security network.
• QRadar deployment. We deploy QRadar to enable proper functioning of its modules and the platform’s high performance and scalability.
• QRadar fine-tuning. We connect log sources to QRadar, normalize data flowing to it, configure its modules to process events from multiple network objects, develop custom correlation rules to let QRadar reveal complex attacks and detect security offenses properly.
• Migration to QRadar. We shift your SIEM solution that fails to meet the security requirements to QRadar so that the platform helps you to identify occurring threats and respond to them properly.

For an advanced health check of a QRadar solution, our SIEM consultants developed a standalone tool QLean for IBM Security QRadar SIEM.

What QLean does:

• Provides automated monitoring of QRadar performance.
• Checks up a variety of essential QRadar performance parameters, such as EPS and FPI statistics, incoming log data quality, events and flows timelines.
• Assesses the received data with over 50 operational metrics and 25 health markers and reports it to QRadar administrators to let them investigate the platform’s performance issues one by one.
• Pinpoints possible deviations in QRadar performance that can impede security specialists to see the true security state.
• Recommends further improvements in QRadar configuration to eliminate the revealed downfalls.

DDoS protection

In case a company decides on applying a special online solution, such as CloudFlare, to protect their network against DDoS attacks, ScienceSoft has the security experts with the skills in implementing and configuring such solutions properly. Our security engineers set them up to:

• Prevent disruptions inside your network occurring due to anomalous amounts of malicious traffic.
• Keep the components of your IT environment in a high availability state.
• Analyze cyberattacks quickly in case they occur and let you adjust the security policies applied inside the corporate network to avoid such cyberattacks in the future.

Email security

We can help our customers to keep their corporate information safe in email communication and secure from unauthorized access, loss, etc. ScienceSoft’s security experts will protect your network from phishing, spamming, malware, and other attacks against email services. Having worked with the solutions offered by major vendors, such as FortiGate and Cisco, we’ve gained the required experience to:

• Integrate an email security solution you choose into your company’s infrastructure to ensure its smooth operation.
• Perform the tuning of the chosen email security service to prevent your sensitive corporate data from being lost or (un)intentionally shared via email by your employees.
• Configure your email security solution properly to reduce the probability your company will face email security threats.

Firewalls, IDS / IPS, DLP implementation and setting

ScienceSoft’s security team implements and sets the security rules of special solutions to control incoming network traffic, scan it to detect and block potential attacks. We offer you the following cybersecurity measures to apply:

• Hardware or software firewall protection to avoid identity theft, malware, online fraud, and other common cyberthreats that may come from the internet.
• An intrusion detection system (IDS) to promptly warn your system administrators on suspicious activities inside your network, and an intrusion prevention system (IPS) to block the attacks before they turn into serious security issues.
• A data loss prevention (DLP) system to prevent critical corporate information from coming outside your network due to the users’ reckless behavior.

Antivirus protection

ScienceSoft’s security engineers configure antivirus protection to:

• Improve the security of the network from viruses, spyware, and other types of malicious software coming from the internet or external drives.
• Increase the protection of your network against phishing and spoofing internet attacks that aim at stealing your sensitive data.
• Provide your system administrators with advanced control over any web activities happening across your network to prevent various types of cyberthreats from affecting the security of your corporate data.
• Remove potentially harmful software and threats, thus blocking their way further inside your network.