Sophos Appoints Mavisco Resources as Distributor in Malaysia

Focus on SME and Public Sectors, Managed Cloud Security Services

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 3, 2013 – Sophos today announced the appointment of Mavisco Resources as a Distributor in Malaysia, for its complete security product portfolio. A leader in technology distribution and channel services, Mavisco Resources Sdn Bhd will provide strong focus on developing the public sector and SME segments of the Malaysian market for Sophos.

Mavisco will distribute the complete range of Sophos solutions including Endpoint Security, Encryption and Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Web and Email Protection, Mobile Control and Sophos Network Security, and Unified Threat Management (UTM).

Said Sumit Bansal, Sophos’ ASEAN Director of Sales “We are partnering with Mavisco because of their experience as a technology distributor and their extensive national sales and service network. With this appointment, we intend to develop a stronger distributed market base and bring our solutions closer to SMEs at state and local levels in Malaysia - beginning with Penang and Kuching, where Mavisco have particular strengths,” he said.

“With a broad network of resellers and service locations nationwide, Mavisco will also help us establish a broad market footprint for our managed enterprise cloud security services, to better serve government and public sector organisations that have multiple branches around the country, as well as SMEs” he added.

Said Jenny Leong, Business Development Manager of Mavisco Resources Sdn Bhd, “This partnership represents a significant new direction for Mavisco in the Malaysian IT channel. We are focused on bringing Sophos’ superior technology to our highly skilled reseller base and will support their own customer development initiatives with our pre-sales, post-sales, license and renewals management and market development services. We expect our partners and their customers will strongly benefit from this refreshing new opportunity in the sector.”

“Sophos’ complete security offerings, 100% channel-first focus, 25-plus years of experience, innovative products and outstanding reputation, make Sophos an ideal IT security vendor for us to partner with – giving us the ability to provide customers with complete security without complexity,” she added. “The firm’s portfolio allows us and our resellers to protect every part of our customers’ businesses, with web, email, endpoint, mobile, network and data security, and unified protection that brings all these products together,” she said.