GLENDALE, USA:Panda Security, a leading global provider of IT security solutions, has announced that Strategic Network Consulting (SNC) has selected Panda Managed Office Protection, a new security-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and value added resellers (VARs) serving the SMB market.

Strategic Network Consulting provides IT services to businesses of all sizes in every industry throughout the Houston, Texas metropolitan area. The company needed a better way to manage the security requirements of its clients and their more than 1,000 distributed computer systems, and found Panda Managed Office Protection as a great tool to build upon their service offering. "Panda Managed Office Protection is a Security as a Service tool that hosts IT management activities in a single web console so we don't have to remotely control individual servers on different sites," said Johnerick Cintron, Network Engineer for SNC. "This complete remote access combined with stellar development and reporting tools help us manage our clients' issues more efficiently, improving our customer service overall."

Panda Managed Office Protection provides a remote Web management console, enabling secure configuration of IT resources from any computer on the Web. Unlike competing products, Panda offers a solution that updates its signature file from "the cloud" continuously and automatically using proprietary malware detection and prevention technology, Collective Intelligence. This technology helps PandaLabs generate vaccines for infections found all over the world and makes the knowledge available to any client utilizing Panda Security software. By gathering, analyzing and delivering data in the cloud, user networks and PCs are not weighed down by cumbersome downloads as they are with other services.

"Panda has proven to be the top antivirus company and yet manages to keep their products simple and provide the best technical support I have ever experienced," said Johnerick. "Their new Managed Office Protection solution is no exception; it's the best thing that could have happened to us because we are now able to manage our clients' security issues from one centralized web console, hosted by Panda, versus remotely controlling individual servers on different sites."

"We strive to offer solutions to our channel partners that can be implemented easily and seamlessly into their customers' computing environments," said Carol M. Adams, vice president of marketing, Panda Security U.S.A. "Panda Managed Office Protection's security as a service model does just that, cutting overall costs and complexity for our channel partners and their SMB customers."