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DUBAI, March 24, 2016

Westcon-Comstor Security Practice will participate and showcase its latest innovations and services at the Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference (GISEC) 2016, to be held next week in Dubai, UAE.

The event will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from March 29 to 31.

Westcon Group is an international networking and IT services group, comprising two main business practices, Comstor and WestconME, focused on convergence, infrastructure, security and identification products and services.

The company will showcase its recently ramped up services solutions portfolio as well as the latest innovations in the security space from two of its key vendor partners Kaspersky Lab and Firemon, said a statement from the company.

Over the past months Kaspersky Lab has published a number of security related reports including the annual Mobile Virusology report and the DDOS Intelligence Report for Q4 2015 and the company experts are ready to educate GISEC event attendees about the key findings of the studies and how regional companies can better protect themselves against today’s cyber threats, it added.

Ovanes Mikhaylov, managing director in the Middle East, Kaspersky Lab, said: “The conference is a great opportunity for us together with Westcon-Comstor Security Practice to communicate with businesses of the region, share our insights and show a comprehensive platform of Kaspersky Lab solutions and services.”

“Our security reports have brought to light valuable information that will give IT decision makers in the Middle East an insight into the latest threats. Among the most dangerous threats in 2015 were ransomware, malware capable of obtaining unlimited rights on an infected device, and data stealers, including financial malware,” he said.

“We also saw an increase in sophistication of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks with new attack channels used by cybercriminals to disable resources. At the event, we aim to help companies tackle the menace that these threats pose,” he added.

“At GISEC, we are keen to share the above insights as well as demonstrate our comprehensive set of security solutions for the enterprise as well as SMBs including endpoint, virtualisation, mobile, data centre and industrial security, DDoS protection, fraud prevention, anti-targeted attack and security intelligence services,” Mikhaylov said.

Firemon’s best-in-class security solutions will also be demonstrated at the Westcon-Comstor stand at GISEC. The company helps organizations find, correct and ultimately avoid gaps in their existing network security infrastructure, said a statement.

James Frost, sales director – Middle East and Africa (MEA) at Firemon, said: “A recent report from Gartner entitled ‘Network Security Policy Management Solutions Have Evolved’ highlights the growing importance of network security policy management technologies from vendors like our company in the light of networks growing in size and complexity.”

“The FireMon Proactive Security Intelligence Platform gives security decision makers key management and operations data to reduce risk and provide appropriate levels of access,” he said.

Westcon-Comstor has ramped up its services solutions practice over the past year. This is in line with the company’s global vision of demonstrating leadership in the distribution space by providing a comprehensive portfolio of services including support services, professional services, education services and supply chain services. The services solutions portfolio will be discussed at GISEC with event attendees.

Steve Lockie, group managing director at Westcon-Comstor Middle East, said: “Services represents a key element of the company’s growth strategy. The distribution landscape today has changed in the context of technology trends like cloud, virtualisation, big data, mobility and software-defined everything, where vendors and the channel expect distributors to be able to support them and their customer base by being an independent supplier of services.”

The services offering is represented by four pillars: support services, professional services, education services and supply chain services. In terms of technical support, the company has the capability to deliver proactive monitoring support capabilities across multiple vendors and multiple technologies. Tailored support packages include 24/7 hotline support, on-site support, device monitoring where a customer´s device is proactively monitored 24/7 and potential failures are communicated to avoid reaching an alarm situation and monitoring of customer’s services, said the statement.

The services team in the Middle East now has nine dedicated personnel. The division can tap into a huge resource pool of over 400 engineers with a broad range of skill sets across the group globally, operating in over 70 countries and six continents, it added. – TradeArabia News Service




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