Kaspersky signs MoU with Mahindra Group firms

MUMBAI, INDIA: Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam, the IT firms of Mahindra Group have announced signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Lab here on Monday.

The three companies will leverage their strengths in the security products and services to jointly develop IT security solutions in the areas of mobility, end-point security and clouds security services.

“Information security services are growing at a rapid pace globally and we are doing very well in this area. Our understanding with Kaspersky Lab is to jointly address this market with solutions, platforms and models to provide customers with new “security-as-a-service” offering and address mobile security threats,” said C P Gurnani, Mahindra Satyam CEO.

The focus area of mobile security solutions will be to secure the growing number of smartphone users, who access the internet on the move for official and personal purposes.

For Kaspersky, this is first kind of initiative, where it has joined hands with large IT firms anywhere in the world. “It marks a day in our three companies as the teams come together to launch the next stage of our partnership,” said Harry Cheung, Kaspersky Lab’s managing director — APAC.

“We are very excited about this partner. It is the value driven service orientation of Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam to provide world class security solutions to clients and potentially win new business that will make this partnership a very fruitful and successful one,” Cheung added.

Kaspersky Lab will work with Tech Mahidra to create a range of managed security services offerings aimed at the SMB sector in the sub-continent and beyond. These services will be built using Kaspersky Lab’s end-point security products and Mahindra’s expertise in service delivery to provide small businesses with access to enterprise-class security at low transaction costs.

Everyday 70,000 new threats are discovered and in 2011 alone, 70,000,000 malware has been collected, according to Bernie Bengler, Kaspersky Lab’s director — Cloud Services/ Software as a Service — APAC. 

“On our mission to protect the world from malware and targeted attacks, we believe telecommunications companies play a key role. Only with strong partners, will able to battle malware and targeted attacks successfully — from end-points all the way up to the cloud,” said Bengler.