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Managing the increased complexity of IT infrastructure including Internet & Intranet applications
Proactively identifying and effectively addressing potential and actual Threats and Vulnerabilities, which emerge on a daily basis
Reducing the costs associated with Information Security Management operations
Increasing difficulty in maintaining sufficient in-house Information Security expertise
Enhance Legal and Regulatory Compliance and/or Internal Audit requirements
Being readily informed about the security posture of organizational mission-critical systems and communication links
Minimizing RISK and ensuring that the INTEGRITY of systems and networks is not compromised
offered through our state of the art Security Operations Centers operating 24/7/365, delivered through our cloud-based MS&OS Web portal which allows for transparency, staffed with highly specialized, experienced, security experts, and
with the support of our world class Threat Analysis and Security Advisory feed provided by
IthacaLabs©,
are poised to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of diverse industry organizations and are flexible enough to change with them.
Odyssey Managed Security Protection &
Outsourcing Services
Challenges faced by Organizations today
Odyssey Managed Security Protection & Outsourcing Services,
“Market understanding, knowledge and expertise, focus and persistence
are all key ingredients to progress and success. That is why you need
all your resources concentrating on these.
Focus on your core business competencies.
”
“You do not have to worry about issues such as the security of your
information, managing risk and meeting compliance requirements.
We have you covered. This is our core business.
”
As a regional leader in the provision of information security and managed
security services for over a decade, with hundreds of clients in security
sensitive industries such as banking, insurance, energy and healthcare,
we have been exposed to these challenges and have heavily invested in
As a modern organization-heavily depending on your technological infrastructure to meet business objectives, operating in an environment where the boundaries of the corporate network are increasingly getting more and more blurry, while new threats and vulnerabilities are threatening the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of your sensitive information, mission-critical systems and communication links-you are faced with a number of critical challenges:“Ensuring that you
face these challenges
in-house, requires
both a high up-front
investment as well
as increasing running
costs.
Most importantly, it
also means that as
an organization, you
divert your focus from
your core activities
and projects.”
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What sets us apart
Transparent Service Delivery – cloud-based MS&OS Web Portal
Odyssey MS&OS web portal provides you with a holistic management and delivery approach to our
Managed Security Protection & Outsourcing Services. This service delivery vehicle nullifies the lines between your internal resources and our MS&OS services providing you with full visibility into your information security baseline and transparency into the services you receive, at any time.
It integrates a host of valuable tools, skills, methodologies, intelligence and BigData Statistical and Behavioral Analytics, which collectively ensure the protection of your mission-critical systems and communication links.
The fully customizable dashboards, drawing from real-time information, facilitate your decision making process as it provides you with a full and detailed view into the organization’s information security posture.
The intuitive design and layout of the cloud-based MS&OS web portal facilitates the easy navigation and understanding of your data. It also allows each user to tailor their work environment based on their needs, work responsibilities and habits.
High Performance and Efficiency by design – BigData Analytics
With the utilization of BigData intelligent security capabilities, we introduce unparalleled performance capabilities to the services’ Investigation, Remediation, Statistical and User Behavioral Analytics (UBA) features; all, vital aspects for any organization that is serious about its information security capability.
On your side 24/7/365
Odyssey Managed Security Protection & Outsourcing Services are delivered through our world class Security Operations Centers that operate on a 24/7/365 basis. With constant feeds on the latest information security research and Threat Intelligence from Odyssey IthacaLabs©*, our MS&OS experts
have the tools and means to monitor your environment, alerting you of any suspicious activity, even taking emergency steps towards responding to identified security incidents.
* IthacaLabs© is a group of specialized security engineers and researchers who scout the global IT Security environment
with a two-fold mission; Remaining abreast of- and evaluating emerging information security trends and technologies;
and identifying, analyzing, assessing and responding to emerging information security threats
Tap into our diverse pool of experts
Our MS&OS team is a particular mix of highly skilled system and network security experts with proven knowledge and deep expertise on how to reduce your risk. This means we have both, access to intelligence relating to upcoming vulnerability threats and exploits, but also a strong team of experienced engineers ready to effectively address these exploits in a structured, knowledgeable manner.
“Advanced 24/7/365 protection and management of your security
devices, systems, applications, network infrastructure and
communication links.”
Reporting
We facilitate your cumbersome reporting responsibilities by providing you with the capability to produce predefined reports designed to meet the requirements of regulatory frameworks such as the PCI. This built-in capability of our cloud-based MS&OS web portal, also allows you to easily create, schedule and produce additional reports based on your business requirements, thus further simplifying the reporting process.
Information Dashboards
The MS&OS web portal delivers a host of fully configurable dashboards, which can be customized, to meet your users’ needs and work habits. With smart drill-down capabilities, these dashboards allow users to have pertinent, real-time information right at their fingertips.
Compliance
Through the built-in capabilities of our cloud-based MS&OS web portal, we provide you with the framework for understanding compliance behavior, since Information Security rules and regulations of the organization are the key to strengthening information security.
Performance & Availability
We proactively monitor the performance and availability of your mission-critical systems and communication links.
“BigData” Analytics
Using BigData Analytics, we are capable of intelligently processing and analyzing large volumes of structured and unstructured data, thus identifying threats, which would go unnoticed by traditional analysis tools and techniques.
Event Management
Our team of experts efficiently and effectively monitors, classifies and manages events according to their severity, enabling your security staff to delegate actions and responsibilities internally.
Vulnerability Management
Through our cloud-based MS&OS web portal, you are able to import results from different vulnerability tools, which we use during the Analysis and Correlation process in order to further minimize False-Positive Alerts. Our MS&OS web portal is continuously enriched with evidence-based knowledge on existing and/or emerging Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities. We feed this information into our Analysis and Correlation processes, thus further minimizing False-Positive Alerts; this intelligence can be utilized to enhance your decision making process when strategically planning your internal defenses against similar future threats.
Threat Intelligence by IthacaLabs
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Our Managed Security Protection Services include Log Collection and Archiving, Monitoring, Analysis and Event Management. Through our MS&OS platform, logs from your mission-critical systems and communication links are collected and correlated on a 24/7/365 basis, both by using highly specialized technologies as well by our MS&OS experts. This process ensures early identification of potentially harmful threats and attacks against your network and system resources.
In the event a suspected or a real threat is identified, MS&OS engineers may invoke a structured escalation process, which includes alerting you to the fact using the following communication methods: Sending Email, Push-Notifications* and/or SMS, accompanied with a brief summary of the incident including its severity level
Updating the incident management dashboard with details regarding the raised incident, including suggested course of action
Calling you for providing detailed information on an incident and how it might affect the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of your mission-critical systems and communication links
In addition, our experts are always available to provide to you the assistance and guidance needed to enable you take the necessary actions against potential and/or actual intrusions. In such cases, if requested, our team may undertake to lead, or assist, the Incident Response Process.
All related alerts, incidents, vulnerabilities and information regarding latest exploits and threats, reports and analysis tools, in addition to other key security data, are available for review at all times, through the MS&OS web portal.
*For receiving Push-Notifications on smart-phones and tablets you should install Odyssey ClearSkies mobile application, which is available for Windows, iOS and Android operating systems.
“Reduced Risk. Ensuring that the integrity of organizational systems and
networks is not compromised”.
Odyssey Managed Security Protection Services
Key Benefits
Through Managed Security Protection Services, your organization can realize the following key benefits within the boundaries of a planned and definable budget:
Enhanced 24/7/365 protection and monitoring of your mission-critical systems and communication links
Continuous log analysis and correlation of log data with real-time Incident Escalation Focus internal resources on core organizational competencies
Access to BigData Analytics platform which provides Smarter Statistical & Behavioral Analytics, including User Behavior Analytics “UBA” capabilities for identifying threats, which would go unnoticed by traditional analysis tools and techniques
Threat Analysis and access to Security Advisories issued by IthacaLabs©
Minimized Mean Time to Restore/Recovery (MTTR) capability by proactive identification of Internet threats and malicious activities
Facilitation of effective and efficient regulatory compliance
Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by eliminating the need to recruit, train, and retain an in-house security capability
Continuous monitoring of the performance and availability of your mission-critical systems and communication links
Email Push-Notifications Incident Management Dashboard
Once under an Outsourcing contract, you can rest assured that your in-scope security devices, systems and network infrastructure are maintained 24/7/365 in a top-notch operational, functional, and effectiveness state. Within the scope of our Outsourcing Services, our MS&OS experts will undertake to configure and diligently administrate your in-scope components so that they are updated with latest upgrades and bug fixes remaining impermeable to new and emerging vulnerabilities and related threats.
“Minimized Cost. Immediately improve your information security
baseline without long deployment learning curves and no up- front
investment”
Odyssey Outsourcing Services
“Evolving to meet clients’ needs and changing environments”
Whether you want to subscribe to Odyssey Managed Security Protection services or decide to go for Outsourcing Services, our service models and SLAs can be tailored to meet your initial requirements and flexible enough to change along with your changing needs.
Understanding the ever-changing nature of your organizational infrastructures and information security needs, your initial SLA agreement could be upgraded both in terms of breadth e.g. the number of systems/applications supported, as well as depth e.g. the level of service provided.
What remains constant irrespective of the nature of your contract, is the capability to enjoy full transparency and visibility into your information security management operations and baseline security posture by opting for a hybrid service contract.
This is feasible because, even if your Managed Security Protection or Outsourcing contract does not cover all of your information security assets, you can still be able to manage the assets you choose to protect internally by subscribing to our ClearSkies SECaaS SIEM service.
Offered via private cloud, Odyssey ClearSkies SECaaS SIEM service, will provide you with all those tools and functionalities required to enable you manage those assets internally e.g. perform asset monitoring, log review and analysis, as well as manage events in a well structured and knowledge facilitated manner.
Odyssey Managed Security Protection &
Outsourcing Service-Level Agreements
Key Benefits
Through our Outsourcing services, your organization can realize the following key benefits within the boundaries of a planned and definable budget:
Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by eliminating the need to recruit, train, and retain an in-house security expertise
Freeing internal resources to focus on core organizational competencies
Proactive policy configuration, patching and software upgrading of the in-scope devices Faster remediation and troubleshooting of in-scope devices problems 24/7/365
Minimized downtime and improved recovery by performing backup of the in-scope network and system configurations
Minimized downtime due to security and administration configuration errors
“By transparently integrating
a Managed Security Protection
or Outsourcing service contract
with a subscription to ClearSkies
SECaaS SIEM service into a
hybrid service contract, you
can have a complete view of
your organization’s information
security posture at all times”.
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Company Overview
Odyssey Consultants is an ISO 27001 certified, Information Security, Infrastructure and Risk Management Solutions integrator and a Managed Security & Outsourcing Services Provider. Odyssey is accredited by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) as a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV). Our services and solutions span the whole spectrum of People, Process and Technology. Odyssey was founded in 2002 with the main objective of providing “High-Quality, Cutting- Edge, Information Security, Infrastructure and Risk Management Services” to organizations that value their information assets. Since then, and in keeping with market trends, we have evolved and pride ourselves for becoming a regional leader in the Managed Security & Outsourcing Services sector as well.
Our Vision and Mission
Our vision is “to be the leading organization in the wider region in the areas of Information Security, Infrastructure and Risk Management Services and related Managed Security & Outsourcing Services, creating real and sustainable value to our clients, employees and shareholders”.
Our Mission is “to be the recognized leader in the regional Information Security, Infrastructure, Risk Management and Managed Security & Outsourcing Services market, projecting trust in our experience and skills, and consistently delivering a high quality experience to our clients”.
Our Principles
We Are Centered Around You
Underlying our business mission is the unconditional requirement that our services fulfill our clients’ needs and exceed their expectations. Having this in mind, our business approach places the client in the center of our business equation.
Building Value For Our Customers
This statement underpins our philosophy in servicing our clients’ needs through robust cost - benefit analysis and approaches, which take a pragmatic and practical approach in balancing risks and controls.
Our Values
Innovation
We transform innovative ideas into progressive products and solutions that proactively address information security trends and challenges.
Passion for Perfection
We strive for perfection by inspiring into our people the sense of leadership, ownership and perseverance that is supported by a culture of teamwork, mutual respect and professionalism.
Customer Focus
Underlying our business mission is the unconditional commitment to be ahead of our customers’ needs and exceed their expectations, by delivering high quality, adaptive and robust solutions.
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