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A Quantum Leap in Cyber Security & Data Engineering by ABYRES
A QUANTUM LEAP IN CYBER SECURITY AND DATA ENGINEERING BY ABYRES
The home-grown Malaysian company is at the forefront of cyber security and data engineering through innovation, collaboration and acceleration.
As digitalisation penetrates global business landscapes and changes the way business is conducted across the world, ABYRES Holdings Sdn Bhd, a home-grown Malaysian company offering Enterprise Open Source solutions is poised to deliver innovative solutions to local and regional businesses.
A visionary organisation that foresaw the rise of open computing, ABYRES has been in operations since 1997. ABYRES offers clients solutions in the areas of cloud computing, cyber security, data engineering, modern applications, as well as training & centre of excellence expertise. The company continuously strives to improve and develop high-quality, cost-effective, and better-suited solutions for its clients
CEO Jamal Suleiman. through research and development. It serves large enterprises, government agencies and private sector organisations, and is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company.
Armed with a commitment to be a “Trusted Partner” for open source technology, ABYRES offers its clients a unique value proposition that include pure-play open source and open computing, cutting-edge cyber security solutions, and technology enablement solutions.
CYBER SECURITY – MAKING IT A PRIORITY
Aside from the company’s wide base of cloud computing offerings, ABYRES also spearheads cutting-edge cyber security solutions that include consulting services, CTI, CMERP, SOC on Demand, and SOC In A Box.
COO Ts. Basheer Ali Majeed.
Under its cyber security portfolio, ABYRES assists clients in security health checks with its CMERP Insight. This solution detects any malicious activities of advanced and sophisticated malware within their network, provides regular and consistent health check reports, transfers knowledge and offers support services.
ABYRES also provides coordinated malware eradication and remediation platform through which it addresses advanced malware threat detection, containment and removal, as well as mitigates advanced and sophisticated malware infection within the network. CEO Jamal Suleiman said, “We also provide clients with immediate incident response processes and a centralised dashboard with detailed reports for optimum security management.”
With cyber threats increasing by the minute, ABYRES is wellequipped to manage and mitigate threats with its Advanced DNS Firewall technology that comprises a cloud-based security platform with DNS filtering to stop zero-day attacks. This platform also offers pre and post-infection protection, web filtering services, DNS security as well as Next Generation protection using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The company’s threat centric Security Operation Centre (SOC) is built with open source architecture and is available in two modes namely On Demand-Cloud-based SOC and SOC in a Box plug and play.
The SOC is customisable to suit the requirements of clients, offering preventive security monitoring while establishing asset awareness, ranks security alerts, and modifies defences while maintaining compliance. ABYRES also provides firewall-as-a-service subscription from Cymetrix.
Recognising the seriousness of cyber threats compromising data security, ABYRES has also adopted the ‘Zero Trust’ architecture to provide a state-of-the-art threat intelligence platform in association with ThreatSTOP.
ABYRES’ expertise also spans Managed Detected and Response (MDR) which includes Health Checks and reports to identify vulnerabilities within the organisation’s IT systems. Once this has been identified ABYRES offers clients consultancy services to mitigate these risk areas and safeguard the organisation’s data.
Threat Hunter As a Service (THaaS) is another key component in ABYRES technology ecosystem, providing SOS and Threat Hunting services and Mitigation. With its own ‘Threat Intelligence Platform’ client receive information twice a day throughout the contract period. The company also helps clients with disaster planning and restoration services from Cymetrix, to build a disaster recovery (DR) plan for their organisations.
DATA ENGINEERING – MAKING DATA YOUR MOST VALUED ASSET
“More and more organizations are adapting to data-driven culture by empowering employees with the right data and at the right time to gain huge competitive advantage,” said COO Ts. Basheer Ali Majeed. Over the years of experience in Data Engineering, AET, a wholly owned subsidiary of ABYRES Holdings, has since developed data engineering solutions such as AE Data Visualization, AE Data Workflow, AE Data Catalogue, AE Data Quality Management, and AE Data Application Platform.
ABYRES Data Catalogue services help clients to boost their data discovery capabilities and access within their organisations; while the company’s Data Quality Management (DQM) enables organisations to maintain an effective DQM to obtain accurate insights. Meanwhile, ABYRES’ Modern Data Platform ensures clients’ data availability, offers faster reporting and decision-making capabilities, and optimises operating costs while increasing return on investment (ROI).
ABYRES Data Engineering Services encompasses Data Ingestion, Data Integration, Master Data Management, Data Cleansing, Data Pipelining and Dashboard/ Report Data Modelling.
Data Ingestion spans the development of batch and streaming data ingestion as well as data preparation. Data integration involves the consolidation of data from disparate sources into a single dataset to derive beneficial business intelligence. Master Data Management the study and creation of architectural and data model design; while Data Cleansing enables clients to obtain accurate, reliable, consistent and useable data.
ABYRES Data Pipelining enables the smooth and automated flow of data by automating processes that involve extracting, transforming and consolidating data. Dashboard/ Report Data Modelling involves the study of requirements, and the creation of architectural and data model design for dashboards or reports.
MSC MALAYSIA APICTA 2020 VIRTUAL AWARDS
For its excellent delivery of security solutions, ABYRES was named Winner of the Business Services Category – Security Solutions at the MSC Malaysia APICTA 2020 Virtual Awards for its Cymetrix – Threat Centric Security Operations Centre (SOC). The award was organised by PIKOM and MDEC.
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
ABYRES is well-associated with global leaders such as HortonWorks (now Cloudera), EnterpriseDB, Percona, Zmanda, SUSE, WSO2, Red Hat and other reputable technology partners. The company also has strategic alliances with Cyber Security Malaysia leveraging on Cyber Security Solutions.