With its strategic expansion plans in South Africa, eScan, one of the leading Anti-Virus and Content Security Solution providers has formed a strategic alliance with Secure Lab Pty LTD, leading Southern African IT Distributor with an aim to enhance their geographic reach.

On this occasion, Mr. Sunil Kripalani, senior vice president - Global Sales & Marketing, eScan, said, "According to a Cybercrime Report industry experts, South Africa hosts the third-highest number of cybercrime victims in the world, behind only Russia and China. Moreover, with the popularity of the internet, African countries are facing more serious network security challenges. Evolving cyber threats has led security, as a major concern for every IT user, be it home users or organisations. South Africa alone has seen roughly an 8% growth year-on-year in terms of PC users. In Malawi, PC users have grown a substantial 20% in a year. On the other hand, with the constant rise in our growth graph globally, we have exclusive expansion plans in South Africa. It is a continuous process and we continue to add more distributors such as Secure Lab who will help us to enhance our market penetration in the region."

On this partnership with Secure Lab, Mr. Nazir Kazi, AVP - ME & Africa, said, "With the increasing internet dependency, IT users are becoming more security conscious when it comes to what they do on the internet. Credit card fraud, identity theft as well as rising SPAM and phishing attacks makes consumers more wary while shopping or banking online. Keeping in mind the continuously growing cybercrime, at eScan we ensure that our products fulfil the constantly changing security needs of its IT users, whether it is windows, Linux, Android or Macintosh environment. Secure Lab is a leading Southern African service-focused distribution partner that has a wide client-tele within the government and private sectors across sub-Saharan Africa, including schools, municipalities, financial institutions and manufacturing sectors. With its unique approach to customer engagement, we are sure that eScan's association with them will help us improve our business and also help us fulfil our aim to provide a secured IT infrastructure to IT users in South Africa.

Sharing her thoughts on association with eScan Claire Milroy, marketing director, Secure Lab Pty LTD said, "Secure Lab prides itself on assisting resellers with growing their own businesses. Secure Lab will now be driving eScan business into sub-Saharan Africa to grow the existing customer and partner base - from resellers to sub-Distributors, to Distributors. Our partnership with eScan enables us to further assist our resellers by giving them greater product choice with their distributor of choice. There will also be a focus on educating our territory about the vast product range offered by eScan, which includes solutions for home and small office users, large enterprises and e-commerce. We are looking forward to this partnership and growing the brand within the sub-Saharan African market."

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eScan, one of the leading Anti-Virus & Content Security solutions for Desktops & Servers is developed and marketed by MicroWorld. It is powered by innovative and futuristic technologies, such as MWL Technology, DIRC Technology, NILP Technology, and sophisticated Anti-Virus Heuristic Algorithms that not only provides protection from current threats, but also provides proactive protection against evolving threats. eScan provides 24x7 free remote support facility, integrated in the software to help customers to get their malware related issues resolved in the fastest possible time-frame. It has achieved several certifications and awards from some of the most prestigious testing bodies, notable among them being Virus Bulletin, AV-Comparatives, West Coast Labs (Checkmark), ICSA, and PCSL labs. Combining the power of various technologies, eScan provides Multi-level Real-time Protection to Computers and Networks. For more information, visit www.escanav.com.

Secure Lab
Secure Lab is a new breed of service-focused distributor that is building a powerful reseller network for security services in Africa. Secure Lab's offerings includes leading security products from vendors such as eScan, Cyberoam, Attix5 and Secure Networking Services, Complimenting these solutions are a full suite of value added services which include comprehensive reseller training, technical support, marketing assistance and incentives to enable reseller to effectively take solutions to market. The full suite of products and services are geared towards private and public sectors and cater for home users, SMB customers as well as large enterprises.
With more than 13 years of collective experience within the IT security field, Secure Lab's knowledgeable and highly skilled team can boast the fastest response times for reseller support queries. Operations are geared in taking the pain out of supplying products and services to customers. Secure Lab's emphasis lies in systems that help resellers improve their business and realize the value of a 1 on 1 relationship.
For more information, please visit www.securelab.co.za.