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Nuvias and FireEye Sign Pan-European distributor agreement

Sauron_eye_barad_durValue added distributor Nuvias has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with the security outfit FireEye.

The plan is that Nuvias will play a key role in driving further adoption of the FireEye product portfolio including the FireEye Helix Security Operations Platform, Endpoint Security and other solutions.

The agreement is initially focused on markets in the UK and Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and the Netherlands. However, it will eventually cover the whole of Europe.

FireEye is a significant addition to the growing Nuvias Security Practice; the outfit works with Juniper Networks, Arbor Networks, Barracuda, Check Point, Fortinet, HID Global, Kaspersky Lab, Malwarebytes VASCO and WatchGuard Technologies, to deliver end-to-end security solutions.

As part of the agreement, Nuvias will be introducing NU: RAP for FireEye – a Rapid Acceleration Programme for new and existing partners to achieve growth and high-value returns.Nuvias aims to help partners generate revenue by building end-to-end, repeatable solutions based on the FireEye product suite with local knowledge and support available.

Nuvias Group’s EVP Cyber Security, Ian Kilpatrick said: “As the threat landscape has evolved, it’s become crucial to have the strong combination of technology, expertise and intelligence. With FireEye, we can now cover each of these areas comprehensively. One of Nuvias’ main goals for security is to help customers identify unseen threats with frontline intelligence and technology to help organisations maximise security investments. By offering products like FireEye Helix we’re in a high position to deliver this.”

Jason Ellis, Vice President, EMEA Channels at FireEye said: “Nuvias has a strong reputation and in-depth understanding of the EMEA Security IT market, so we’re looking forward to working with them. The partnership strengthens our focus on the channel and offers us a huge opportunity for incremental growth. Nuvias partners now have access to the full range of FireEye solutions which come with access to FireEye experts who have a great deal of valuable frontline cyber experience.”

Nuvias buys Benelux

Three-Musketeers-The-1973-1605x903The acquisition mad distribution brand that’s backed by Rigby Group has made another purchase.

Nuvias has acquired security VAD DCB to bolster its presence in the Benelux, where it already operates advanced networking and unified communications practices.

With offices in Veldhoven in the Netherlands and Zaventem in Belgium, DCB shares several vendor franchises in common with Nuvias, including WatchGuard and Kaspersky Lab. It also works with the likes of Trustwave and Centrify.

Nuvias is the recently created distribution brand of Rigby Private Equity, and is based on a trio of acquisitions in the form of security VAD Wick Hill, in July 2015, networking and storage VAD Zycko in December 2015, and unified comms VAD SIPHON the following October. It has since expanded organically into various countries, including Switzerland.

Financial services offer rubbish security

BouncerFoxFeatureKaspersky Lab and B2B International have worked out that a third of financial services don’t offer customers a secure channel for all their online payments.

This is despite the fact that 62 percent of these organisations have noticed a significant rise in their customers making financial transactions online, and 50 per cent believe online financial fraud is increasing.

The survey found that many banks and payment companies are struggling to fully protect themselves and their customers from financial fraud at a time when customers are using an ever-wider range of devices to conduct a growing number of financial transactions online.

Two-thirds say that customers are increasingly using different devices to make online payments, yet just half have implemented two-factor authentication and only a half  have introduced a specialised, real-time anti-fraud solution.  This is despite the fact that 22 percent believe this is the most effective form of protection available.About 42 percent extend such a solution to customer devices and only 67 per cent implement a secure connection for all online payments.

About half admit that they are only mitigating risk rather than removing it altogether and 29 percent say it is cheaper to deal with online financial fraud incidents as they arise rather than to try to prevent them from happening.

Kirill Slavin, general manager UK and Ireland, Kaspersky Lab said that the study shows that banks and payment organisations are finding it difficult to manage online financial fraud in today’s connected, omni-channel consumer landscape.

“About 38 percent of the organisations we spoke to admit that it is increasingly difficult to tell whether a transaction is fraudulent or genuine, with a worrying one in three opting for a ‘we’ll deal with it as it happens’ approach to fraud protection,” he said.

“If you consider that our own research uncovered 22.9 million financial malware attacks in 2014, targeting 2.7 million customers worldwide, it is clear that dealing with each incident individually is not a viable, long-term option. Customers deserve better and so do the financial services,” Slavin said.

The study found that general Internet-security software solutions are not widely regarded as an effective method for preventing the increasingly well-disguised phishing and malware attacks that can lead to financial fraud. Less than ten percent of respondents favoured this option.

The IT Security Risks Survey 2015, conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, involved more than 5,000 company representatives, including 131 banks’ and payment services’ representatives, from 26 countries.

[That’s enough percents, Nick. Ed.]

Computerlinks becomes B2B Kaspersky distie

kasperskylogoDistributor Computerlinks has won a contract to sell Kaspersky Lab’s portfolio with a view to drive growth in the B2B market.

Kaspersky hopes this strategy will boost the company’s routes to market as well s increasing its presence in the UK. Computerlinks will offer channel partners Kaspersky’s Endpoint Security for Business as a key asset in its security portfolio.

Endpoint Security for Business lets companies both control and protect on site devices as well as cutting resource demands on IT teams, bringing mobile device management, data protection, systems management, and endpoint under one management console.

Director for B2B sales and marketing at Kaspersky Lab, Matthew Robinson, said that Computerlinks’ experience in value-add will prove “invaluable” to customers and channel partners.

He added that Kaspersky’s new strategy, which focuses on a full value model running along with the existing volume business, will keep Kaspersky “at the forefront of the evolving channel landscape”.

Computerlinks’ director of core technologies, David Caughtry, said that the deal is part of Kaspersky’s “exciting stage of growth”.