Pointsec announces strategic partnership with NEC Solutions Asia Pacific
Partnership focused on offering comprehensive solutions and information security services for Southeast Asia region
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – July 12, 2005
Pointsec, the global leader and the provider of the de facto standard for enterprise security software for laptop and desktop PCs, PDAs and smartphones, today announced a strategic partnership with NEC Solutions Asia Pacific Pte Ltd ("NECSAP"), a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation.
NECSAP will embark on aggressive expansion of its regional IT managed services outsourcing business with the establishment of the NEC Managed Services Outsourcing Centre in Singapore as its Southeast Asia hub. NECSAP also announced its strategic partnership with leading independent management and IT consulting firm ABeam Consulting Pte Ltd ("ABeam").
"It is timely for NECSAP to consolidate its IT managed services business for more aggressive regional expansion, with Singapore as the regional hub," said Mr. Tomohiro Yagi, CEO of NEC Solutions Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. "In line with NEC's goal to expand its consulting and managed services business based on IT/Network integrated solutions, we are pleased to have as our strategic partners, ABeam Consulting and Pointsec Mobile Technologies, both leaders in their fields, as we can leverage on each other's core competencies to offer customers a more extensive suite of solutions and services and combinations of offerings for more flexibility to suit their dynamic business needs and enhance their competitive advantage."
Under the agreement with Pointsec, NECSAP will act as reseller and marketer of Pointsec's software products and services in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and The Philippines. Pointsec enables large organisations to take full advantage of today's mobile environment without compromising information security by protecting user credentials and critical data stored on their PCs and mobile computing devices from intrusion and data theft. Pointsec has garnered the Gartner Group's "Leader" position for mobile data protection three years running.
"We are very pleased to sign NEC Solutions Asia Pacific Pty Ltd as our partner to broaden our market reach the Asia Pacific region," said Oscar Morén, Managing Director, Pointsec Mobile Technologies Pty Ltd. "NEC Solutions Asia Pacific Pte Ltd is a very successful IT solutions provider to the financial, corporate, and government markets, and has the proven expertise and experience that makes them perfectly suited to become a Pointsec partner."
"We are very delighted to be appointed by Pointsec as their reseller in this region," said Mr. Yagi. "Information security is paramount to our customers, regardless of their industries and scale of operations, so we find ourselves well-placed to offer them Pointsec's mobile devices security solutions and services for additional peace-of-mind as part of our network and service. At NEC, we give top priority to customer satisfaction and are constantly striving to provide better products and better services."
Today, the NEC Managed Services Outsourcing Centre handles projects based on its established know-how, a combination of local development and NEC Corporation's expertise, in the form of service tower models including Desktop & Helpdesk Support, Management and Infrastructure Support. The professional services and multi-million dollar spare parts depot of NECSAP's Regional Support Centre (RSC), which was established in 1988, complement the service support capabilities of NEC Managed Services Outsourcing Centre in this region. In addition, RSC operates the Global Networking Centre and Asia Plasma Centre which, in turn, complement the NEC Managed Services Outsourcing Centre's service capabilities. The NEC Managed Services Outsourcing Centre's service support capabilities are also complemented by the NECARE Service Centre Singapore Hub (one of two regional hubs), which provides customers with strong hardware maintenance and support.
About Pointsec
Pointsec is the worldwide de facto standard for mobile device security - with the most customers deployed, highest level of certification, and more complete device coverage than any other company. Pointsec delivers a trusted solution for automatic data encryption that guarantees proven protection at the most vulnerable point where sensitive enterprise data is stored - on mobile devices. By securing sensitive information stored on laptops, PDAs, smartphones, and removable media, enterprises and government organizations can protect and enhance their image, minimize risk, shield confidential data, guard information assets, and strengthen public and shareholder confidence. Pointsec's customers include blue chip companies and government organizations around the world. Founded in 1988, Pointsec AB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Protect Data AB, publicly traded (PROT) on the Stockholm stock exchange. The company has two U.S. offices, nine EMEA offices, two APAC offices and one branch office in Dubai, Middle East. Pointsec can be found on the web at: www.pointsec.com.
About NEC Solutions Asia Pacific
A wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, NEC Solutions Asia Pacific is a leading information technology services provider with core competencies spanning the entire range of systems integration and consultancy services. This includes world-class identity solutions, turnkey implementation of mission-critical solutions, project management, and regional systems support and maintenance services. The company's suite of solutions and services covers Systems Integration, Identity Solutions, Financial Solutions, RFID Solutions, Retail Management Solutions, Manufacturing Business Solutions, Enterprise Resource Planning, Imaging and Workflow Solutions, Enterprise Information Portals and Knowledge Management, NECare Service Centre, Enterprise Servers, Network Solutions and Multimedia Display Products. Visit www.nec.com.sg/ap