Local online distribution company, Intact Security, has added the G Data range of products to its portfolio, after signing a publishing and distribution agreement with the German security solutions provider.
The contract includes the entire portfolio of G Data solutions, which Intact Security will publish and promote via Syntech SA and its existing reseller base.
“G Data's strong reputation in Europe, together with its products, provide a good base from which we can grow the brand in SA,” says Lutz Blaeser, MD of Intact Security.
In a statement, Intact Security says that, in addition to the consumer market, the focus will be on G Data's business suites. Intact Security has identified a gap in the market for an anti-virus software solution that is rounded out with Web content filtering, application and device control, it adds.
The G Data Internet security and anti-virus suites will be available through Syntech SA, which is the only authorised provider of G Data consumer and corporate solutions in the market via the reseller channel.
Blaeser explains that, with cyber criminals increasingly targeting businesses, an effective security suite is essential.
Intact Security adds that, as cyber criminals increasingly use social networks for criminal activities, these platforms present both a blessing and a curse for companies. On the one hand, they are the ideal platform for a large proportion of extra-corporate communication. On the other, they are an ideal medium for spreading malware.
“Criminals also use social portals for social engineering, that is, for spying on and collecting information about companies and their employees. In social networks, fraudsters use stolen or fake user profiles to contact their victims and try to get sensitive or confidential information from them,” Blaeser explains.
“This can turn employees into data leaks for companies, where they communicate such information via these portals and divulge too much about themselves or the company. For example, perpetrators could use data that they have collected about a company network to identify weak points in the IT infrastructure, then attack it accordingly,” Blaeser explains.
In addition to this type of security threat, social networks provide a significant threat to productivity if employees spend too much time online.
“In a company with 25 employees, where each employee spends only half-an-hour a day on social networks, [it] can lose on average 262 hours of productivity a month,” says Blaeser.
“This excludes tea breaks, lunches and all the other lost time during the day. And while it may not sound like a lot, if you take a basic salary of R4 000 as a starting point, this equates to a loss of over R100 000 per year.”
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