My main use case for Securiti is their learning packages for training.

I have used Securiti's learning packages to upskill myself on data governance relating to AI.

The quality of the learning that Securiti offers, especially considering that the courses are free, is incredible.

Securiti hasn't impacted my organization; it has impacted me as an individual.

It has impacted me positively because the courses that I completed were in areas and subjects that I needed to be more confident in, and the courses and certification have provided me with that confidence and those skills.

The overall availability of a free AI data governance and data security package is important enough in itself.

There is nothing about Securiti's learning packages or the platform that I would change or improve.

I have used Securiti's packages twice over approximately eighteen months.

It is too early to tell if having those certifications has helped me in my consulting work or opened up new opportunities for me.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was great because it was all completely free.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Securiti.

Securiti deserves a rating of ten on a scale of one to ten. I chose this rating because it did absolutely everything that I needed it to. My overall review rating is ten.

The main use case for Securiti in my organization is to safeguard the physical assets as well as the digital assets. The prime motive behind deploying the SOC or the security, cyber security solutions, or for that matter, the information security solutions within the bank is to safeguard the physical assets as well as the digital assets. Coming back to the digital assets, the focus is primarily on safeguarding the customer data, which is paramount to the day-to-day operations within the banking sector.

A specific example of how I use Securiti to safeguard customer data involves our crown jewel applications or the applications which are customer facing such as core banking, INB, internet banking, mobile banking, loan lifecycle management system, or tab banking. For all these customer facing applications, we have implemented ZTNA 1.0 and ZTNA 2.0 implementation is in progress. That means the zero trust network architecture is implemented for all the mission critical customer facing applications, wherein we have adequate safeguards in place for protecting people, processes, and related technologies.

The best features Securiti offers in my experience primarily safeguard the digital assets. I would say the prime purpose of security is to safeguard the digital assets. That means the data, underlying platform, and be it the storage, compute, network, data, and applications. These major five pillars are what security solutions aim to protect. Security is in today's context, whether it is IS security or a subset of it, cyber security, it is very much required to reduce the business risk, business continuity risk which may arise because of the disruptions of compromised IT apps.

Of those features, I find the zero trust network, zero trust architecture, ZTA, most valuable and unique in Securiti. If you look at the zero trust architecture, it's the three main principles under this, which include principle of least privileges and microsegmentation of the network and role-based access control, fine-grained access control. With these three tenets of zero trust architecture, we are quite confident that the mission critical customer facing applications which are hosted in their respective production region, remain up, alive, and uncompromised.

To improve Securiti, I would say that ultimately the IT team as well as the business team, there has to be an amalgamation of their thought process, convergence of their thoughts, objectives, aspirations for achieving the business objective of a particular organization. The way forward is to form the fusion team wherein there is a judicious mix of business and IT and both the teams understand each other's limitations and the aspirations and the common objectives.

As far as needed improvements in Securiti, I would say that automation is key. If you look at the kind of huge amount of data which SOC integrated devices are generating in terms of alerts, automation or the appropriate use of AI is the way forward. That will lead to the overall improvement in the efficiency as well as the threat intelligence will be much more accurate. To my mind, automation with the augmented use of GenAI or the agentic AI solution is the way forward.

I choose eight for Securiti because for it to be a nine or 10, ultimately the uptime has to be improved, it should be nearing 100%. Apart from that, there has to be more unified communication happening between various customer facing applications. These siloed applications having their own kind of security solutions implemented also have to be brought on a uniform platform. Until that happens, there is always a gap which has to be filled. The processes within the SOC, whether it is SIEM, NBAD, or your DAM, alert analysis, logs analysis, these have to be predictive analysis, and the thwarting of the cyber attacks still requires more effort.

I have been using Securiti since 2012, where I was responsible from the department's perspective for setting up the security operation center within the bank, security SOC 1.0. Thereafter, I was also SPOC from the department side for SOC 2.0. While performing my role as SPOC for the SOC, SPOC for the internal audit for the SOC initiative within the SBI, I was responsible for the asset integration into SOC. Thereafter the configuration of SIEM agent, DAM agents, NBAD, and cyber security incident closure. Those were the initial SOC 1.0 days wherein I have handled these challenges. Additionally, VA closure is one of my areas of expertise and passions.

Securiti has positively impacted my organization in a way that addresses the prime concern of the board of the bank or the business that the evolving cyber security, ever-evolving cyber security threat should not lead to the disruption in the applications, key customer facing applications availability. The top executive or the C-level executives want to understand the impact of implementing the various cyber security solutions in terms of the reduction, tangible reduction in the business risk. There we have proved that the return on investment is quite acceptable to the board's aspiration.

A specific metric that demonstrates this ROI with Securiti involves our customer facing applications. If you look at core banking, INB, or ATM, treasury, or mobile banking, the uptime is upwards of 99%. With that kind of high availability and the continuous threat exposure management, CTEM, we are quite sure and we have proved our worth to the business in implementing the cyber security solutions. Apart from the uptime, the kind of rating which our application gets from independent agencies such as scorecard also proved the efficacy of the IT security solutions implemented within the bank.

Securiti's scalability is impressive; it is capable of handling a large workload for a bank having 25,000 plus branches and a customer base of around 400 million customers. It can be scaled with the required hardware, either horizontally or vertically, without much disruption.

Customer support for Securiti is quite reasonable, and if I have to rate them, I would say nine out of 10. They are prompt and they take care of most of the use cases or they provide prompt solutions.

We have been using Splunk for SIEM, and Imperva which is now acquired by Thales for DAM, as well as Qubro solutions for network security from inception. We have relied upon these solutions for almost a decade and do not foresee a need for an immediate shift as long as the assets are well protected and the uptime is maintained.

Before choosing Securiti, we evaluated other options, but now we are using Securiti for data privacy. It is one of the important components of the SOC, apart from other components I have mentioned, whether it is SIEM or DAM. Securiti solutions are now largely responsible for safeguarding the data privacy within the bank.

In my experience, Securiti is quite robust, reliable, and scalable as far as data privacy is concerned, and it caters to most of the use cases across different business verticals.

I have seen a return on investment with Securiti. With more automation in the SOC and the implementation of the next generation SOC, the headcount required for around-the-clock monitoring of ever increasing IT assets has gone down drastically. There is also a tangible benefit in terms of the money with the reduced year-on-year application downtime, even though the cyber security threats are ever evolving.

Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for security solutions, we usually enter into an enterprise license agreement for a bank of our size. Whether it is Splunk or whether it is RSA Archer or it is Qubro solutions or any other IT security solution provider, we find them to be flexible. With the kinds of hundreds of thousands of IT assets we have for integration, we usually find the IT security solutions providers' pricing as well as their licensing structure to be quite flexible. They also offer price protection.

More and more automation, whether reduction of the exposure or automated remediation of the vulnerabilities, and the prompt reporting in the GRC tool, those are the key initiatives we have taken for last few years in safeguarding the bank's digital assets.

My advice for others looking into using Securiti is to first compile your use cases for a particular sector where you are operating. Thereafter, perform the POC of those use cases followed by pilot implementation before a full-blown rollout. It makes sense to examine or assess the efficacy of security solutions prior to a full-blown rollout.

I rate Securiti eight out of ten.