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eHosting DataFort Achieves Level - 4 accreditation for its Cyber Defense Centre using CREST Cyber Security Assessment Model
December 2017 by Marc Jacob
eHosting DataFort (eHDF), the region’s leading Cloud Infrastructure, Managed Hosting and Security Services Provider, announced the Certificate of achievement (CREST Maturity Model) for its Cyber Defense Centre (CDC)/ Security Operation Centre (SOC) based in Dubai Internet City. The Cyber Security Incident Response certificate demonstrates the maturity level of eHDF’s Cyber Defense Centre (CDC)/ Security Operation Centre (SOC) and showcases the effective policies, processes and procedures the company has in place in helping customers to detect, contain, eradicate and recover from significant Cyber Security incidents in a fast, effective and secure manner.
CREST provides standards and requisite qualifications for companies and individuals providing security services. The certificate is designed to provide customers with confidence that the Managed Security Services Provider that they deal with has the necessary defenses in place to protect their information against the most common cyber threats. The test criteria covers information security best practices contained within the ISO 27001 standard. Only those businesses that apply the very highest level of expertise and professionalism to Security are able to pass CREST’s highly technical assessment programs and achieve the accreditation.
eHDF managed to complete the stringent certification process in a record time within few weeks due to the existing compliance with several other industry standards like PCI-DSS, CSA-STAR and ISO 27001, 22301, 20000, 9001. This places the company high on its maturity in security mandates and governance. The procedure required thorough assessment to evaluate the Process, Technology and Systems that govern the information Security architecture and to ensure that the standards are met. Additional measures were incorporated to meet the required controls.
eHDF is focused on enhancing and maintaining its strong security credentials and is committed to raising the bar and meeting ever-growing customer requirements. The company has been making very strong inroads within the cyber security domain - from the launch of the Cyber Defense Centre (CDC)/ Security Operation Centre (SOC) as well as enhancing its Managed Security Services Portfolio to include, SIEM, Real Time Threat Monitoring (RTTM), Remote Managed Security Services, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), PCI Security Services, Incident Response (IR), etc.
