Digitisation Will Dramatically Rise In Post-COVID Scenario: DXC

Founded in 2017, US-headquartered DXC Technology has fast emerged as one of the prominent players in the B2B IT Services space. Security is one of the most important components of DXC Technology’ services.

Analytics India Magazine caught up with Rashmi Chandrashekhar, Lead – Security, DXC Technology India to understand more about the cybersecurity trends, company’s product pipeline and future plans.

Excerpts:

AIM: What are the various security-related services and products DXC Technology offer?

Rashmi Chandrashekhar: DXC Technology helps customers in improving cyber defence, verifying digital identities, and protecting sensitive data. Our expert advisory services and 24×7 managed security services help in securing an organisation’s digital enterprise.

DXC security offerings:

• Cyber Defence: Tailored solutions to support the digital enterprise, enabling monitoring and response to the evolving threat landscape.
• Secured Infrastructure: Solutions to meet unique security requirements through design, installation and integration of perimeter, network, endpoint and advanced threat protection solutions.
• Digital Identity: Number of digital identity solutions — from provisioning and access governance to strong authentication and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to protect the enterprise.
• Data Protection: Protects critical data and helps enterprises understand the use of critical content, all while meeting constantly increasing privacy requirements.
• Application Security: Application Security Testing enables accelerated delivery of high-quality and secure business applications that lower the risk of a successful security breach.

AIM: Tell us about the AI and ML features in your cybersecurity solutions

Rashmi Chandrashekhar: The DXC Security Platform provides intuitive investigation and intelligence with an automated response. We are enabling enterprise security intelligence and automation through DXC Bionix, our digital generation services delivery model based on intelligent automation at scale. 

The DXC Security Solution harnesses the full power of the ServiceNow platform and DXC Bionix through:

• Analytics and AI – Analytics and artificial intelligence to gain new, real-time insights into the business and its operations
• Lean – Data-driven optimisation to eliminate waste and enhance value
• Automation – Innovative, partner-engineered technologies integrated to create DXC’s intellectual property and assets

AIM: What are your upcoming projects?

Rashmi Chandrashekhar: Some of the key upcoming projects for DXC Security include:

• Strengthening Cloud security, METDR capability, OT Security defence strategy 
• SaaS solutions for digital identity
• Security monitoring strategies for AWS, AZURE and GCP
• Security detection based on UEBA capabilities
• CTI platform with rationalized feeds and reporting requirements
• Integrate with industries and other DXC offerings for solutions that address business problems
• Define solutions for data-centric encryption

AIM: Tell us about DXC Technology’s future plans

Rashmi Chandrashekhar: DXC’s Security vision for the coming years is to provide orchestrated, predictive security analytics and response from anywhere. This will be achieved through initiatives such as predictive intelligence, orchestration and response, hybrid cloud, serverless security, Secure Access Service Edge, automated data lifecycle management, analysis and operationalization and machine learning-driven data management. 

Security is foundational to what we do across our Enterprise Technology Stack of services for our customers, and we make all of our end-to-end solutions secure.

AIM: How do you secure infrastructure and increase agility in a hybrid world?

Rashmi Chandrashekhar: DXC defines four ways in which security can respond with new models and practices better aligned with today’s business needs:

1. SaaS-enabled security – Delivering security with cloud connectivity, scale, and efficiencies
2. Extended detection and response…