Kanoo Information Technology, a leading information technology services company, showcased the latest offerings from Cisco Security portfolio at a workshop, in partnership with Cisco and its distributor Comstor.

 

It includes Cisco FirePower and Cisco FireSight Management Centre, said a statement.

 

The event was attended by chief technology officers (CTOs), chief information officers (CIOs), IT security managers and IT security engineers in Bahrain, it said.

 

Waleed Kanoo, director at Ebrahim K Kanoo, said: “Kanoo IT would like to thank all our customers and well-wishers who have supported us throughout the past years, strengthening our position as a preferred CISCO solutions provider.”

 

Kanoo IT is taking a leadership role in Bahrain in pursuing the implementation of state of the art Cisco Security solutions aimed at providing comprehensive protection from known and advanced threats like targeted and persistent IT attacks while also reducing complexity and costs.

 

Asif Khan, partner manager for Cisco Bahrain, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, said: "Cisco now has the number one market share in network security and data centre security with investment of $100 million annually for their threat analysis team, now called Talos. It represents the industry’s largest collection of real-time threat intelligence with the broadest visibility, largest footprint and the ability to action across multiple platforms for a true defence in depth framework. 

 

"Customer summits provide us the much needed opportunity to interact with our prospects and customers face-to-face. We are happy to associate with Kanoo IT at the very beginning of 2016 and we are sure that today’s event will set the tone for a bright and rewarding 2016 for Kanoo IT and their customers.”

 

Ramgopal Menon, general manager, Kanoo IT, said: "Kanoo IT is continuously helping customers to transform and protect against sophisticated threats. Together with Cisco, we continue to innovate and deliver the most trusted, powerful and visibly driven protection against APT’s and zero day attacks." - TradeArabia News Service