Symantec and KAZ claim world first in managed security

Stan Beer
Tuesday, 06 June 2006 16:54

IT Industry - Deals

Security vendor Symantec Corp and KAZ, Telstra's ICT and IP services subsidiary, have announced an exclusive partnership for KAZ to offer what is claimed to be the world's first Symantec Operational Services to the Australian market. KAZ and Symantec aim to provide to an overall security services solution to organisations, encompassing IT and regulatory compliance, minimising business impact of information security threats, and reducing overall security risk.

Using Symantec Global Consulting Services, KAZ will offer consulting, systems integration, project management and managed and hosted security services to KAZ managed IT customers.

Specifically, KAZ and Symantec will offer Australian organisations:

- Managed Desktop AntiVirus to comprehensively 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; and
- Managed Secure Web Content Filtering to deliver cost-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 and allows both Symantec and KAZ to remain at the forefront of the ever-changing IT market," said 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.

"By combining Symantec's world class information security solutions with KAZ's expertise in services that leverage the Telstra network, this partnership offers complete, end-to-end operational solutions that offer a holistic approach to information protection," Sykes added.

"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," said 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, ensuring full end-to-end coverage.

"Through many years of combined experience across a wide range of industries, KAZ and Symantec have a deep understanding of the business issues that face organisations. Together we have developed a service that enables customers to gain best practice security management for a lower operational cost than an internally managed security solution."