HONG KONG, 7 MAY 2009 – Companies in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines have announced deployment of end-point security and control solutions.
These include Malaysian Nuclear Agency and VADS in Malaysia; Great Giant Pineapple, Gunung Sewu Kencana, Samudera Indonesia and Federal International Finance in Indonesia; as well as Philippine Airlines and Universal Robina in the Philippines.
Presenting the end-point security offerings was Sophos, a US-based information technology security and control solutions provider headquartered in the US and the UK.
Securing enterprise network
The Malaysian Nuclear Agency (MNA) has signed a multi-year contract with Sophos. MNA is a government arm under the ministry of science, technology and environment and is dedicated to promoting excellence in research and applications of nuclear technology for sustainable development in the country
Under the agreement, MNA will deploy Sophos solutions protecting MNA’s enterprise network and end-point devices against both known and unknown threats.
With the integrated network access control (NAC) functionality, the new deployment is also expected to help MNA enforce security policies across its enterprise network and control the use of unauthorised applications such as instant messaging.
Integrated network access control
VADS, a Malaysia-based managed information and communications technology services provider, has also signed a multi-year licence with Sophos.
Megat Mazhar Khair Megat Md Nor, general manager, hosting and managed services of VADS, said: “Sophos Endpoint Security and Control is feature-rich and has proved to be easy to install and maintain during the evaluation process.”
“In addition to a wide spectrum of functionalities including anti-virus, client firewall protection and intrusion prevention, we were also impressed with the integrated network access control which adds a further layer of preventive protection to our network,” he said.
Preventing data leakage
In Indonesia, Great Giant Pineapple, one of the world’s top three pineapple producers, will also deploy Sophos Endpoint Security and Control, as well as Sophos E-mail Security and Control on a multi-year licence.
Sophos e-mail security and control is designed to help stop e-mail borne threats including spam and phishing, enabling complete security and content management from the Internet gateway to the workgroup server, and prevention of information leakage and compliance violations.
Safeguarding e-mail infrastructure
Likewise, Indonesia-based investment and management group Gunung Sewu Kencana and financial services company Federal International Finance have signed a multi-year agreement to implement Sophos Endpoint Security and Control and Sophos E-mail Security and Control.
Samudera Indonesia, one of the leading shipping companies in Indonesia offering integrated cargo transportation and logistic services, is to add Sophos E-mail Security and Control to its existing IT environment to protect the entire e-mail infrastructure.
Philippine Airlines
Up in the Philippines, the national carrier Philippine Airlines will deploy Sophos end-point security and control for its 4,000 users on a multi-year licence. Universal Robina, a Philippine-based food and beverage company, will implement both Sophos endpoint security and control and Sophos e-mail security and control for protection across the enterprise with 2,000 corporate users.
“We were delighted to find how easy it was to seamlessly integrate Sophos solutions with our existing systems,” said Rod Villahermosa, IT manager of Universal Robina. “Both Sophos Endpoint Security and Control and Sophos E-mail Security and Control are light on computing resources and are scalable to allow us to build capacity over time.”
