Capgemini and Fortinet have signed a global frame and alliance partner agreement to deliver cyber security services to the enterprise market.
Through this relationship, Capgemini will further reinforce its cyber security services portfolio leveraging Fortinet products to help reduce customer cyber security costs and increase the resilience of clients' infrastructure and applications, says Fortinet.
Capgemini will work with Fortinet as a key partner, within its ecosystem of security product suppliers, to deliver physical and virtualised security protection and security supervision services, it adds.
This alliance allows enterprise organisations to benefit from the combination of Fortinet's expertise in innovative and effective security products and Capgemini's cyber security services, on a global scale, notes Fortinet.
According to Yann Pradelle, VP at Fortinet Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa, the partnership is a strategic one, allowing Fortinet to join forces with Capgemini to combine advanced technologies with human intelligence and expertise in order to provide broad and adaptive security solutions to the enterprise market.
Beyond technology integration, the agreement also covers human expertise with the training of 300 Capgemini engineers around the world to Fortinet's eight-level certification program, he adds.
"Through this close collaboration, Fortinet will be able to support Capgemini's enterprise customers based in South Africa and the Africa region in their projects and to help protect them against a highly complex threat landscape, and evolve their security posture to a business environment in constant change."
Today's most damaging attacks are advanced persistent threats (APT), says Pradelle, adding cyber crime is no longer random or about brute force, it's more subtle - aiming to infiltrate, stay hidden, and extract data without detection.
The threat evolution is faster than ever - we are, on average, discovering more new threats every day than identifying already known malware, he adds.
While there is no "silver bullet", deploying a multi-layered approach with established and emerging technologies, which work together, will help organisations break the kill chain of APT, advises Pradelle.
Franck Greverie, global head of cyber security at Capgemini, says with the increasing threat to enterprises and consumers, the partnership will provide the highest security protection and security supervision services to meet these challenges.
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