B & Data Technology signs Distribution Agreement with Palo Alto Networks
< Hong Kong > – Leading IT distributor B & Data has signed a distribution agreement with Palo Alto Networks, a leading enterprise security company. Palo Alto Networks offers its customers a security platform which natively brings together all key network security functions, including advanced threat protection, firewall, IDS/IPS, and URL filtering.
The new agreement will see B & Data distributing Palo Alto Networks product range in Hong Kong and Macau, including the next-generation firewall, virtualized firewall, security subscription, centralized management, WildFire, Mobile Security Manager and endpoint protection.
Marcos Ong, Country Manager for the Hong Kong and Macau Region at Palo Alto Networks said: “Palo Alto Networks is the fastest growing security company in history with more than 16,000 customers. Our company continues to see tremendous growth and the Hong Kong and Macau is a key market for us. As our customer base continues to grow, we are committed to expanding the distribution of our products whilst delivering exceptional technical and sales support to our customers.
“We recognize the value that B & Data brings to the table. We will have access to a wide range of specialist resellers in Hong Kong – providing greater market penetration in this specialized sector for our complete product range. We look forward to working with B & Data and developing the Hong Kong channel for our product set.”
Raymond Yung, Regional General Manager for the Hong Kong and Macau region at B & Data
Technology Co., Ltd., said: “We’ve seen the importance of enterprise security platforms, which have become essential to a wide range of control access for enterprise applications and data based on key policy criteria such as application, user, device, and device state. Our team offers best of breed capabilities - our professional staffs are IT industry certified and have extensive working experience in the field of networking, application delivery and security operations. Besides this, B & Data has an enormous amount of channel experience to help Palo Alto Networks work with the relevant channel partners in order to reach end-user customers in enterprise organizations and better address market opportunities. We very much look forward to working with Palo Alto Networks in the future.”
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is leading a new era in cybersecurity by protecting thousands of enterprise, government, and service provider networks from cyber threats. Unlike fragmented legacy products, our security platform safely enables business operations and delivers protection based on what matters most in today's dynamic computing environments: applications, users, and content. Find out more at www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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About Unit 42
Unit 42, the Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team, is made up of accomplished cybersecurity researchers and industry experts. Unit 42 gathers, researches and analyzes up-to-the-minute threat intelligence, sharing insights with Palo Alto Networks customers, partners and the broader community to better protect organizations. Unit 42 team leads regularly appear at industry conferences throughout the world.
About B & Data Technology Company Limited
B & Data Technology Co., Ltd is a leading value-added IT distributor in the Hong Kong and Mainland China markets. Founded in 2001, B & Data commitment to "watch over your Data" has evolved from being a network security product specialist to a distribution platform for the most comprehensive products and cutting edge solutions in the Trusted Security, Cloud Computing, Mobility and Professional Services market segments today.
Please visit: www.bdata.com.hk
