Batelco, the Kingdom’s leading ICT business solutions provider has announced a platinum partnership agreement with Sophos, a key IT security and data protection company, on the sidelines of GITEX 2016. Batelco Senior Manager Cloud & ICT Product Marketing Hussain Mohammed and Sophos Business Head Middle East Amar Mehta signed the agreement on Wednesday, 19th October during a meeting at the Batelco Stand which is part of the prestigious Bahrain Pavilion.
Commenting on the signing with Sophos, Batelco Bahrain CEO Eng. Muna Al Hashemi said that Batelco is constantly on the quest to expand its security services portfolio in order to support the increasing security requirements for organisations across all sectors.
“The signing with Sophos is in line with Batelco’s efforts to provide relevant security for Bahrain’s enterprise sector. Better network security means better business and for peace of mind it is a smart move for businesses to extend their security across all areas of their operation to protect their network, data and all elements of their organisation,” Eng. Al Hashemi said.
Sophos VP MEA Harish Chib said that Batelco with its market knowledge and strong expertise in security solutions was the perfect choice as a key partner in Bahrain.
“Sophos employs a simple and effective ‘Channel First’ sales strategy and its broad and powerful portfolio of IT security products will allow Batelco to deliver a ‘complete security’ and a ‘synchronized security’ solution to their customers. Together Sophos and Batelco can make a significant contribution in improving the IT security landscape of Bahrain,” added Mr. Chib.
The Bahrain market continues to see an increasing demand for innovative and managed security solutions. Technologies such as Cloud, virtualization and enterprise mobility are tremendous business enablers, but the risk of data breaches, identity theft, financial theft and a never-ending stream of virus and malware attacks pose a threat to organisations’ network security. Such risks are prompting organisations and government authorities to expand their security efforts to ensure peace of mind.
Batelco has established partnerships with well-known security providers to meet the specific needs of different organisations and implement scalable, flexible and cost-effective security solutions. Through the provisioning of Sophos Security Solutions, which are easy to deploy and manage, Batelco aims to enable organisations to take an innovative approach across all areas of network security, from the way firewalls are managed to the way they report information and how they work with other security systems around them, resulting in an unprecedented level of simplicity, insight and advanced threat protection.
Batelco’s range of solutions integrates all the advanced networking, protection, user and application control needed to stay secure and compliant and features mission critical benefits such as next generation firewall, web protection and control, network and email protection, redundancy and advanced malware protection plus many more benefits.
The provision of advanced Security Solutions positions Batelco as the leading end-to-end integrated ICT solutions provider offering customers a one-stop-shop experience which differentiates the Company from others in the market. On an ongoing basis, Batelco continues to expand its ICT portfolio and strives to deliver a steady stream of new solutions to its customers. Business customers in Bahrain are invited to contact their account manager directly while new customers are invited to call 1788 1144 to find out more about Sophos Security Solutions.