New Products, Channel Inititatives Highlight Kaspersky Lab Event

The VAR Guy, By Charlene OHanlon

Kaspersky Lab peppered the first day of its 2011 Americas Partner Conference in Riviera Maya, Mexico, with a slew of new product announcements and partner offerings as well as hints of upcoming technologies designed to strengthen its partners’ collective bottom line.

The first of the new offers is a small-business offering called Kaspersky Small Office Security, providing robust security in a package designed to fit the SMB market. “We are delivering premium small-business protection that includes central management, protection for up to 10 PCs and 2 servers, business data protection, employee web use control, password management, file shredding and other features, all complemented by high-quality support,” said Randy Drawas, Kaspersky CMO. Small Office Security will be available by the end of this quarter.

The company also announced a new managed offering that allows Kaspersky partners to provide an annuity-based service for their client. Details on the new service were not available, but the company did note the service will be available “fairly soon.”

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