EGUARDIAN Teams Up With McAfee To Bring Increased IT Security To South East Asia’s Growth Markets

SINGAPORE, January 9, 2013 – EGUARDIAN, a leading value added distributor of innovative technology products and services in South East Asia, today announced a partnership agreement to deliver McAfee’s market leading security technologies to customers in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

In an effort to equip large organizations as well as small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) against cyber threats, EGUARDIAN will offer McAfee’s enterprise grade, cloud-based anti-virus platform for business users in the region as Security-as-a-Service (SaaS).

The threat landscape is increasing in severity and nearly 72 percent of data breaches[1]), were at companies with less than 100 employees. And the trend of targeting SMBs is ever increasing, a major concern for a region where this sector is paramount for economic growth and employment.

Therefore, the big challenge facing fast-developing organizations in South East Asia is to ensure secure business operations, reduction of upfront costs, simplified deployment as well as management and maintenance. Offering Security-as-a-Service addresses the urgent demands of organizations for security offerings which can be easily deployed with a measurable return on investment while minimizing system migration impact.

This customized solution is supported by over 120 EGUARDIAN staff with local language support across the region, local infrastructure and in-country scanning for email and web traffic, so that customers in ASEAN countries can expect a second-to-none service quality and performance.

Said Kaiyang Cai, CEO, EGUARDIAN: "With the current paradigm shift in cloud technology and SaaS adoption, we believe that such an offering will offer tremendous value to both our partners and joint clients. We chose McAfee as our security technology partner to power our Security-as-a-Service Platform because of their leadership in delivering proactive and proven security solutions."

This McAfee-powered integrated security management solution consists of anti-malware, desktop firewall protection, and browser protection. It can effectively help enterprises of all sizes prevent malware and network threats to affect business, and minimize security risks.

“By partnering with EGUARDIAN for this region, it is our objective to make our security solutions accessible to companies in the fast growing economies across South East Asia,” said Wahab Yusoff, Vice President for South Asia, McAfee. “With the quickly changing threat landscape, we are confident that this partnership will deliver best-in-breed technology combined with local market understanding and on-the-ground support, offering effective and efficient security protection solutions.”

EGUARDIAN, already named distributor of the year by McAfee for 2011, plans to offer McAfee’s complete range of market leading business and technology solutions for small, mid-sized and large organizations across the whole spectrum of security and risk management, including data protection, database security, email and web security, endpoint protection, mobile security, and Security-as-a-Service.

[1] As investigated by Verizon Communications’ forensic analysis unit