Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
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."
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