Kaspersky Lab Joins Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program

[News]Kaspersky : 9 February 2012

Bangkok – 7th February 2012 - Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that it has become a Golden Member of the Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program. The new global partnership is ushering in much closer cooperation between the companies and inclusion of Kaspersky Lab’s products on a wide range of Samsung devices.

Commenting on the new partnership, Garry Kondakov, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Kaspersky Lab, said: “We are very glad to begin the new global partnership with Samsung Electronics and to take our cooperation to a whole new level. Our membership in the Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program will help us further develop our mobile solutions based on Samsung’s vast experience, and also expand the distribution of our solutions through Samsung Electronics´ global network, improving our market positions on a global scale.”

The Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program is a comprehensive partner program designed to provide differentiated benefits for sales, marketing and solutions´ development to enable leading domestic and global independent software vendor and systems integrator partners to create new profit models through Samsung Electronics’ mobile solution business.

As part of the Golden Partnership package Kaspersky Lab is to supply Kaspersky Mobile Security and Kaspersky Tablet Security to Samsung to protect both private and corporate Android-based Samsung mobile devices. These solutions ensure the highest class of security based on advanced protection against privacy violation, device loss or theft, annoying calls and messages, as well as malicious software.

Under another part of the program, Kaspersky Lab is to provide consumer security software to protect Samsung PCs, notebooks and netbooks running on Windows OS. For corporate products Kaspersky Lab is to supply Kaspersky Endpoint Security, different business models, and a flexible approach to achieve the best security for each corporate customer.

About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is the largest antivirus company in Europe. It delivers some of the world’s most immediate protection against IT security threats, including viruses, spyware, crimeware, hackers, phishing, and spam. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users. Kaspersky Lab products provide superior detection rates and one of the industry’s fastest outbreak response times for home users, SMBs, large enterprises and the mobile computing environment. Kaspersky® technology is also used worldwide inside the products and services of the industry’s leading IT security solutions providers. Learn more at: www.kaspersky.com. For the latest on antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and other IT security issues and trends, visit: www.securelist.com.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com