BANGALORE: Wipro Infotech has signed an alliance with Symantec Corporation to
jointly market the Symantec range of security products and solutions in India.
As part of the agreement Wipro will market Symantec solutions in anti-virus,
vulnerability assessment, intrusion prevention, Internet content and e-mail
filtering. It also includes retail distributions through Wipro dedicated
distributors and partners in India.
The partnership will strengthen Symantec's strategy to integrate
consultation, installation and implementation of high-end security products and
solutions for medium to large companies, in India.
The partnership establishes Wipro Infotech as the sole distributor for
Symantec's enterprise Internet Security range of solutions and co-distributor
for Symantec’s leading Norton Anti-Virus range of products in India along with
Tech Pacific. Symantec’s product range will compliment Wipro’s existing
security offerings by providing anti-virus software, network and host based
intrusion detection software, security assessment and policy manager software,
secure remote access software to PCs and servers.
Symantec India country manager Joy Ghosh said, "Enterprises are
challenged with implementing and managing effective security measures with
limited internal security expertise about the latest vulnerabilities and
threats."
Wipro Infotech general manager-business solutions Anurag Mehrotra said,
"The alliance with Symantec will augment our extensive range of security
products and further strengthen our proposition in end-to-end security
consulting and implementation. We will market this in the domestic market and
will slowly take it to the APAC region in the due course. The alliance is all
about marketing the product, so we will encourage customers to use Symantec
products for security solutions. The security solutions in India is poised for
explosive growths."