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Kaz/Symantec Team Up For Australian SMB Security
SecurityProNews
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2006-06-06
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Symantec and Australia-based Kaz, the ICT and IP services subsidiary of Telstra, have teamed up to offer Symantec Operational Services to Australian small and medium businesses (SMBs) through Symantec Global Consulting Services.
The five-year agreement allows Kaz to offer consulting, systems integration, project management, and hosted security services to IT customers, based on the software as a service model (SaaS).
Aimed specifically at the Australian market, the partnership will offer Australian businesses:
- Managed Desktop AntiVirus to manage the risk of viruses and spyware across enterprise environments
- - Email Gateway Security to deliver advanced technologies and best practice management for cost-effective email security
- - Managed Secure Web Content Filtering to for efficient control of staff access to inappropriate or malicious web content.
"This agreement represents a milestone for the global outsourced services industry, as it is the first of its kind," says David Sykes, vice president, Australia and New Zealand, Symantec Corporation. "The agreement enables customers to benefit from a resilient infrastructure that is flexible enough to respond to information demands and changing business needs yet robust enough to withstand possible information security threats."
"As Telstra's ICT services arm, Kaz partnered with Symantec because it provides one of the most trusted and complete portfolios of security technologies and expertise available today," says Mike Foster, CEO of Kaz. "By partnering with the information security market leader, Kaz is able to offer a comprehensive security service which starts at the network and extends all the way to the desktop."
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