Mahindra Special Services Group (MSSG), a business unit of $6.7 billion Mahindra group, plans

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to focus on aviation and mass transportation security. The corporate security risk consulting firm at present handles physical and personnel security areas in the homeland security market.

Said Dinesh K Pillai, head, delivery of MSSG, “We help major corporate and government organisations in design and implementation of operational measures – continual and event-based – to ensure the security of their physical, personnel and information assets. MSSG is also assisting clients in integrating physical, environmental and safety-related controls as an integrated part of the facility design. Going ahead, MSSG aims to become a big player in the aviation, mass transport and port security segment.”

According to Frost & Sullivan, security-related spending at Indian airports will amount to $3.3 billion by 2016 while mass transportation will see an expenditure of $3.6 billion. The mass transportation segment comprises railways and metro systems. Further, the total security-related spending at all Indian seaports is expected to be in excess of $413 million by the year 2016.

Pillai added, “We are already in talks with few airports and we see a great future in this segment. Also private metro operators under mass transportation segment will adopt high-end technology driven security measures and we feel we will be able to play a significant role in this growing market too.”

In addition, MSSG is also into port and pipeline security besides cyber security. It provides advisory services to law enforcement agencies as well. Its 140 clients list includes companies such as Unilever, Parle, Godrej, HDFC bank, Axis bank, Bombay Dyeing and Essel Propack.

Around 56 per cent of the company's business comes from helping clients in the assessment, design and redesign of their information security protocol. The remainder comes from engagements in providing physical security detail. Pillai declined to disclose the revenues of MSSG.