ISQ World is created and managed by First Legion Consulting, an information security management company based in Bangalore, India. First Legion was incorporated in the year 2005 and during the past years, First Legion has provided information security solutions to respected clients such as Ericsson, Vodafone, OnMobile, Airtel, InfoSys, Lakshmi Machine Works, Colt, Fidelity Business Services, Allianz Cornhill, Gulf Bank Kuwait and more. (See First Legion’s Clients and Testimonials)

First Legion’s Mission: What we do?

First Legion’s mission is to enable organizations to better manage the human risks to information security.

First Legion’s Vision: What we aim to become?

First Legion’s vision is to become a respected solution provider for information security awareness and behavior management solutions. This vision shall be achieved through ISQ World.

ISQ World: First Legion’s flagship portal

Based on the experiences with our customers, First Legion has realized that there is need for easy-to-use and efficient information security services that can be delivered through the web. In response to this, First Legion has created ISQ World, a comprehensive information security awareness management service.

The ISQ Team

Anup Narayanan

Anup Narayanan, is an information security entrepreneur and professional. He is the founder of First Legion Consulting, an information security management company based in Bangalore, India. Anup specializes in reducing information security risks due to human error. At First Legion, he has created “Information Security Quotient” a web service for reducing security risks due to human error through awareness and behavior management. He is also the author of HIMIS (Human Impact Management for Information Security), methodology for security awareness and behavior management. He has more than 11 years of experience in information security and is a CISA and CISSP. He has delivered security projects for clients that include Ericsson, Vodafone, Allianz Cornhill, Airtel, Fidelity, UST Global and more. His training and speaking experiences covers India, Mauritius, Spain, Portugal and Vietnam.

Prior to becoming an information security entrepreneur, Anup worked in information security positions for HCL Comnet and Global e-Secure. Anup can be contacted at:

Vicente Aceituno Canal

Vicente is the Director (Research & Development) of First Legion Consulting. Vicente is also the principal author and leader of ISM3 (www.ism3.com). Vicente started his career in the field of network and systems administration and moved into project management and security management. During his career in Spain and UK, he has worked for companies like Coopers & Lybrand, BBC News and DMR Consulting. He is also a member of ISSA and he writes regularly on information security. ISM3, authored by Vicente has recently been adopted by the Open Group (Learn more…). He can be reached at “vac at firstlegion dot net”