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Leading value added distributor, ComGuard announced that following the long successful relations with Kaspersky in the Middle East region, now it has bagged the distribution rights for India and Kaspersky has appointed ComGuard as the nationwide enterprise distributor for India. Commenting on extension of relationship with Kaspersky to India Ajay Singh Chauhan, CEO of ComGuard said, “We are happy to expand our relations with Kaspersky beyond Middle East region. We are sure that we will be able to further consolidate our relations with Kaspersky and write a similar success story in India too.”Read More…

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Leading IT distributor, Al Hosani Computer in association with Kaspersky announced their special promotion “GITEX Shopper week of Golden Bar Surprises” for this Gitex Shopper’s. The promotion will kickstart at 8th October and will run for a week and during that week anyone who purchases Kaspersky Antivirus 2012 or Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 at Al Hosani Computers stand EL 2-2 at Gitex Shopper or from any of leading retailer like Carrefour, CompuMe , EMax, Geant, HyperPanda, Jacky’s, Jumbo and Sharaf DG will have the chance to enter the lucky draw to win a limited edition of 7 golden bars, worth up to AED 30,000 each.Read More…

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Kaspersky Labs partnered with Emerging Threats Pro, the leading producers a professional grade IDS and IPS ruleset for Snort and Suricata based on and supporting the Emerging Threats open source project. The ruleset focuses on malware and major vulnerabilities, but also provides known bad IP lists and IP/DNS reputation feeds. Kaspersky uses these ruleset for its in-lab internal research work. The cooperation between the two companies entails collaboration on a malware samples exchange and also combined work on extending Emerging Threats Pro ruleset coverage.Read More…

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Leading value added distributor for IT security solutions ComGuard makes available the version 2012 of the Kaspersky Anti Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security Lab for the Channel partners in the Middle East region. The all-new Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 incorporate the most advanced and effective protection technologies: a sandbox for launching suspicious applications, a program activity monitoring module, a script emulator, a cloud-based reputation database, a virtual keyboard plus many other features.Read More…

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Kaspersky today announced the appointment of Muscat based Overseas Business Machines (OBM), as an enterprise partner in Sultanate of Oman. Kaspesky expects OBM to play a key role in providing on-ground pre-sales, technical and maintenance support to the corporate customers with networks larger than 500 nodes based in Oman. Commenting on this new partnership, Tarek Kuzbari, Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab Middle East and Turkey said, “Being closer to our clients is key for our business growth and success. Read More…

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Regional VAD for security products ComGuard, was recently recognised by its vendor partner Kaspersky Lab for its outstanding work and commitment during the year 2010 at an Emerging Markets Partner Conference held in CapeTown, South Africa. ComGuard was awarded the “Best Project of the Year: Best Governmental Deal of the Year Award” and the award recognised the ability of ComGuard to offer high standard of POC, Project Planning, implementation and technical support. Amir Mohsen Abedinifar, product manager of ComGuard also won the “Best KasperskyLab Champion Award” making him one of the only four recipients of the award among the 140 contestants hailing from the emerging markets across the globe.Read More…

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Kaspersky recently announced the appointment of Scope Information Systems (Scope), a leading systems integrator and technology solutions provider, as a value added distributor for its products in the Levant region. The new move is expected increase Kaspersky Lab’s penetration in specially in most challenging markets in the region like Iraq, Syria and Palestine and spread its reach in rest of the Levant. Scope will also support the development of Kaspersky Lab’s corporate business in the Levant countries and play a key role in developing small and medium businesses in the region through recruiting additional resellers from their existing channel partners.Read More…

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Kaspersky Lab, leading security and threat management solutions, today announced plans to refine its organizational structure and become one of the top three IT security solutions providers for endpoint users in 2011. According to Kaspersky Lab’s operational results for 2010, the company demonstrated significant growth in all regions. Globally, the company’s revenues grew by 38 percent year-on-year and exceeded $500 million. The year 2010 was also a successful one for Kaspersky Lab in the CIS, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where revenues totaled $131 million — an increase of 35 percent compared to 2009.Read More…

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FDC International and SOFTEC Distribution have partnered in Kaspersky to distribute the vendor consumer range of products. FDC International’s appointment will support the expansion of Kaspersky Lab, in North Africa, through increasing its product awareness and enlarging its customer database, while SOFTEC Distribution will focus on developing the retail market for software sales within the Levant region and help Kaspersky Lab establish proactively strategic initiatives to counter piracy in the region.

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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions is the UAE consumers’ most popular anti malware brand dominating the country’s retail sales with an overall market share of 37 per cent by value and 38 per cent by volume according to the latest IDC report about AMS retail channel in UAE, KSA, Egypt and Pakistan.

According to the same report, a total of 900,000 anti virus products with an estimated value of USD$ 6 million were sold across UAE retail stores in 2009. To make a comparison, Saudi Arabia’s AMS retail channel market during the same period was worth USD$ 4 million on a 600,000 unit volume. In Egypt, the most populous market in the Middle East, the total value of the market is estimated at USD$ 1.5.Read More…