Kaspersky appoints Comguard as its Indian VAD

Ajay Singh Chuahan, CEO at Comguard
Ajay Singh Chuahan, CEO at Comguard
Ajay Singh Chauhan, CEO at ComguardComguard extended its business relationship with Kaspersky Lab with the appointment of their Indian outfit as the National Value Added Distributor for Kaspersky to distribute the Enterprise Solutions across the country.

Comguard has been associated with Kaspersky as its Regional Distributor for corporate products in the Middle East region since 2006. The distributor has 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.

Maxim Mitrokhin, Director of Operations, Kaspersky Lab, Asia-Pacific said, “India is one of Kaspersky Lab’s key markets in Asia-Pacific and growing extremely fast, particularly in the B2B space. 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.”

Kaspersky Lab and Comguard plans to 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.

“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,” said Altaf Halde, Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab, South Asia.

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.

Ajay Singh Chauhan, CEO, Comguard commented “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.”