Kaspersky Lab India appoints ComGuard as National Distributor for Enterprise Products. Comguard will focus on strategic customer accounts and address the enterprise market of 1,000 users and above.
New Delhi, 24 July 2013
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Kaspersky Lab India appoints ComGuard as National Distributor for Enterprise Products. Comguard will focus on strategic customer accounts and address the enterprise market of 1,000 users and above.
Quick Facts about ComGuard
- ComGuard is a leading Value Added Distributor of networking and security products across Middle East & Africa region
- In India, ComGuard has strong channel connect with large System Integrators and is particularly focused on building relationships with channel partners that service 1000+ user accounts
- ComGuard has an authorized Kaspersky training facility at Dubai Knowledge Villa, which can accommodate up to 80 partners; plans to take key partners to Dubai for partner enablement.
Strong focus on growing Enterprise business by establishing strong channel connect and enhancing technical support
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions has announced the re-appointment of ComGuard as a National distributor for Enterprise solutions at press conference held in New Delhi today. Present on the occasion were Mr. Maxim Mitrokhin, Director of Operations, Kaspersky Lab, APAC, Mr. Altaf Halde, Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab, South Asia and Mr. Ajay Singh Chauhan, CEO, ComGuard.
Under the distributorship agreement, Kaspersky Lab and ComGuard will join forces to leverage their strengths in security products and services to develop joint Go-to-Market strategy in the areas of Endpoint Security, and Targeted Security Solutions, including addressing BYOD challenges. These solutions will aim to address the ever-increasing security threats to corporates in India. The agreement will see ComGuard acting together with channel partners on a pan-India level to roll out the full suite of enterprise offerings from Kaspersky Lab as a Value Added Distributor.
Kaspersky Lab’s proven endpoint security products, and ComGuard’s decade-long expertise in distribution of security products and a solid partner network, will provide businesses with access to enterprise-class security with strong technical support.
ComGuard has been associated as a distributor of Kaspersky corporate products in the Middle Ease since 2006 and have handled some of the largest government and commercial establishments as clients in the UAE. Leveraging on in-house technical support resources and strong channel network, ComGuard has been recognised for its dedicated and sustained efforts to add value to its distribution role.
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Maxim Mitrokhin
Director of Operations
Kaspersky Lab, Asia-Pacific
 | “India is one of Kaspersky Lab's key markets in Asia-Pacific and growing extremely fast, particularly in the B2B space. As we move into the next orbit of growth, it is extremely important for us to align with the right set of partners and our association with ComGuard is a step in that direction. We believe associating with ComGuard will help us in our outreach efforts to target medium and large enterprises and win new business, while strengthening our channel connect further and enhancing the quality of our technical support.” |
Altaf Halde
Managing Director
Kaspersky Lab, South Asia
 | “We are very excited about the partnership. The partnership between Kaspersky Lab and ComGuard has come at the right time when we have just launched our latest enterprise offerings – Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, aimed at medium to large enterprises. We believe ComGuard will be able to leverage our new suite of Enterprise offerings, including our targeted solutions – Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, Security for Mobile, Systems Management, et al.” |
Ajay Singh Chauhan
Chief Executive Officer
ComGuard
 | “We are happy to expand our relations with Kaspersky beyond the Middle East region. We are sure we will be able to further consolidate our relations with Kaspersky and write a similar success story in India too. The partnership between Kaspersky Lab and ComGuard will help address security challenges faced by corporates by bringing a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions to enterprises on a wide-scale. High on our agenda will be our focus on extending channel reach and disseminating product knowledge to our partners." |
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About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 15-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 300 million users worldwide. Learn more at www.kaspersky.co.in
About ComGuard
ComGuard, Indiais a part ofSpectrum Group of Companies, which is a synergy of Spectrum Training, ComGuard Distribution, ComGuard Value Business, Psilog International, Spectrum Networks Solutions(India),ComGuard (India) & F1 Infotech (Hospitality Solutions). With offices in Dubai, Riyadh, Singapore, Mumbai, Delhi and over 200 highly skilled professionals supporting the group initiatives, Spectrum Group has truly emerged as one of the top ICT players in the region.
ComGuard Networks in Indiastarted its operations in India in 2009 as aniche network and information security technology distributor. With a product portfolio that is studded with world class IT vendors like WinMagic, gateprotect, Accunetix, Array Networks, Paawa, ComGuard has supported project requirements of leading enterprises in the Indian region. It has also now added a new Data & Voice Communication vertical to its existing portfolio, where Comguard is aDistributorfor Patton, EnGenius Technologies, Arista and Service Partners for Brocade, Swivel and CA Technologies.
Leveraging on in-house technical support resources and strong channel support, Comguard has been recognized for its dedicated and sustained efforts to add value to its distribution role. As a Value Added Distributor, ComGuard has created a niche for itself in the product distribution space, through its strong channel support, in-house technical support and inherent strength in infrastructure and customer service skills.
* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2011. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2012–2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares (IDC #235930, July 2012). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2011.
