Bangalore, July 10 2001: Net ProActive Services, the Internet Infrastructure Management Company, which provides Managed Services and Infrastructure Consulting Solutions, today announced that 10 new customers have identified and selected Net ProActive Services for providing Infrastructure related services. The prestigious list of new Net ProActive Services' customers include General Electric Capital Services (GECIS), Hathaway, Hughes Telecom, Infosys, Jasubhai Digital Media, Larsen & Toubro Information Technology Ltd, Net Decisions, Skumars.com, Spice Telecom and Vysya Bank. With these new customers, Net ProActive Services has strengthened its presence in the Indian market.

"The popularity of our vendor-neutral services spans industries, regions and company sizes," said TG Ramesh, CEO, Net ProActive Services. "The companies which have chosen us for our services and the aggressive rate of customer acquisitions by Net ProActive Services is a testimony to the commitment that we have towards our customers, the quality of deliverables, and also the growing demand for a pure service focused company. To service this growth, Net ProActive Services will continue to invest significantly in people and infrastructure in India."

"Of the recent customers acquired, most of them have engaged with us in more than one area of our services portfolio; seven have opted for Net ProActive Services' Security Solutions; three for Managed Services and four for our Infrastructure Design and Performance Management Services. This affirms that Net ProActive Services is becoming a leading player in the areas of end-to-end Infrastructure & Security Solutions and Managed Services", said Joy Nandi, Executive Vice President - Marketing & Alliances. "We are an infrastructure services organization with a unique combination of business and technology expertise. Our customers see us as a young and dynamic company that is a focused player in the Infrastructure space, with high-end skill sets and high-value services."

Net ProActive Services is the first Managed Service Provider (MSP) from India to offer on-site support and value-added Managed Services from its IMaRC™ (International Management and Resource Center), on a 24x7 basis, to its customers globally. Net ProActive Services is the only India-based Managed Service Provider (MSP) to be part of the MSP Association - a newly formed industry consortium in the US. As an Executive Member, Net ProActive Services participates in research, technology standardization and propagation of best practices in Infrastructure Management space.

"Outsourced Managed Services will rapidly accelerate in the Indian context this year. Increasingly greater number of organizations realize that the single point ownership and increased accountability provided by Net ProActive Services can bring a big improvement to overall reliability and performance of their IT infrastructure. Managed Services from BL, based on a comprehensive on-site and off-site service delivery model, provides optimum service levels, at a much lower cost of operations", said R. Prabhakar, Head - Managed Services from Net ProActive Services.

With the current focus world-over on security issues and challenges that Enterprise and Service Providers alike are facing, Net ProActive Services has recently announced a host of Security Consulting and Managed Security Services (under the bSecure@BL banner) - which include security initiatives, such as "Ethical Hacking"; "Risk & Threat Assessment"; "Security Advisory Services"; "Remote Firewall Management"; "Online Intrusion Detection"; "Penetration Testing"; and "Vulnerability Assessment".

"In some recent cases of 'Ethical Hacking and Vulnerability Assessment' that Net ProActive Services conducted on behalf of its clients, we found quite a number of Enterprises and Service Providers are vulnerable to both, internal and external threats", said Milind Dikshit, Head of Net ProActive Services' Security Practice. "In India alone, over 90% of all Enterprises are vulnerable - either, because of inadequate security measures; non-availability of Enterprise-wide security policies in some cases, and non-adherence in others; or a lack of periodically and timely updated security systems, patches, and bug-fixes. A lot of our customers in the recent past have realized the need to fix these issues. We see Security Solutions being a strong area of growth for Net ProActive Services", he added.