SecureData Africa, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings, the sole sub-Saharan distributor for Trend Micro, today announced that the latter has signed a definitive agreement to purchase innovative data protection specialist, Mobile Armor, in a move that will expand Trend Micro's data protection product portfolio.
“Mobile Armor's data protection offerings provide full-disk, file/folder, and removable media encryption for endpoints,” commented Lee Bristow, Product Manager at SecureData Africa for Trend Micro's products.
“They will complement Trend Micro's existing data loss prevention, e-mail encryption and cloud encryption products. This acquisition furthers Trend Micro's leadership in data protection and encryption from the endpoint to the cloud for all major customer segments. Small and medium businesses, large enterprises, and government organisations will receive unprecedented, centrally-managed data protection while benefiting from a more flexible, effective layer of protection by encrypting data no matter where it resides.”
Data protection is a growing concern for businesses. IDC assesses that the market for endpoint encryption is growing at an estimated 14% CAGR through 2014. State and national governments are enacting more stringent regulations such as the US HITECH Act, the UK Data Protection Act, and the German Federal Data Protection Act. Together with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), such regulations are driving the need to encrypt sensitive information and protect privacy. The increased frequency and cost of data breaches are also accelerating the adoption of encryption as organisations strive to mitigate risks and protect sensitive information from unauthorised access.
"This acquisition will expand Trend's endpoint security market reach and will provide our customers with proven technology for encrypting data on laptops, tablet PCs, and smartphones,” continued Bristow. “Mobile Armor's solutions further Trend's vision of protecting digital information wherever it resides and complements its recent announcement of Trend Micro SecureCloud for securing and controlling data in the cloud. Mobile Armor's endpoint encryption suite will enhance Trend's data protection portfolio for the cloud computing era."
"Security-minded buyers are assured that the Mobile Armor solution is fortified, tested, and proven to have the quality, certifications and critical security features that other data security solutions do not have,” concluded Bristow. “For customers, we see Mobile Armor complementing Trend Micro's data protection strategy and contributing to Trend Micro's mobile and cloud security initiatives. In a similar way, Trend Micro's worldwide reach and extensive resources will add value to Mobile Armor's customer base."
According to a recent report by Gartner, each year, hundreds of thousands of laptops, phones and removable media devices are estimated by various sources to go missing through loss or theft; to have their data copied without consent; and to be upgraded or exchanged without having their data removed. Mobile data protection (MDP) is an attractive complement to the endpoint protection (EPP) product suites, which already encompass enterprise antivirus (AV), anti-spyware, personal firewall and desktop host intrusion prevention system."
For further information, please contact Lee Bristow at tel. +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail leeb@securedata.co.za.
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SecureData
SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services.
SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, applications, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.
For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
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