Konica Minolta Uses Panda Security to Easily Manage Security for its Highly Distributed Workforce

• Konica Minolta Portugal has trusted Panda Security to protect its IT network for more than eight years

Konica Minolta, a leading provider of IT and office equipment, has been working with Panda Security to help protect its highly distributed workforce in Portugal for more than eight years.

For Konica Minolta, the benefits of being able to manage the protection of the entire network remotely is of special relevance with its dispersed IT infrastructure. By eliminating the need of local teams being dedicated to security or constantly traveling between the branches to provide internal IT support, Konica Minolta is able to focus on its core business. Konica Minolta’s IT infrastructure is made up of approximately 200 computers mainly concentrated at its headquarters in Prior Velho, Lisbon, with offices in three other strategic cities (Porto, Coimbra and Faro).

“The antivirus solution Panda Security for Enterprise guarantees the protection of all workstations and servers, which are easily managed from a single location through the Panda AdminSecure tool”, said Delfim Oliveira, IT Manager of Konica Minolta Portugal. This gave Panda a competitive advantage over its competitors. “The security decision was strongly motivated by Panda being the most innovative company on the security solutions market”, explained Oliveira.

Panda Security has been able to meet all of Konica Minolta’s needs. “Since installing Panda’s products we haven’t had any infection issues, which provides us with significant peace of mind” said Oliveira.

One of the most outstanding features of Panda Security for Enterprise is “the ease of management provided by the AdminSecure centralized console”, which sets it apart from its competitors.

Konica Minolta’s experience of dealing with Panda Security reflects the support mantra to provide a quality service by maintaining a close relationship. Delfim Oliveira described the relationship with Panda’s support technicians as follows: “Whenever it was requested, Panda Security support displayed technical competence and professionalism, solving incidents with either a remote fix or in some cases an onsite visit”. However, he clarified that “The stability of the Panda solution installed on our systems ensures no current incidents and the experience we have gathered during our years of partnership allow proactive protection against new threats”.

Panda Security for Enterprise provides the most advanced proactive protection in a multi-tier flexible architecture covering all network layers. Its functionalities include network access and application control. Panda Security for Enterprise provides complete protection against known and unknown threats, based on a combination of the most advanced proactive technologies and comprehensive, periodic audits.

Panda Security’s solution combines unauthorized Internet access filtering, anti-spam and anti-malware protection, content filtering and detailed reports.

For more information about Panda Security for Enterprise, please visit: http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/enterprise

For more on Konica Minolta’s customer success story, please visit:  http://press.pandasecurity.com/press-room/case-studies/

News Release from Panda Security

FEB 22, 2012

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Panda Security and Microsoft Join Forces to Develop Cloud-based Antivirus Security Services on Windows Azure

• The new beta version of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0 is hosted in Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-based platform that provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet.
• The beta software can be downloaded for free athttp://www.pandasecurity.com/promotions/betatest/.

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, and Microsoft have signed a collaboration agreement to develop cloud-based antivirus security services on Windows Azure. The new version of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0 is hosted in Windows Azure, a cloud platform designed to host, scale and manage Web applications. Windows Azure uses a set of privacy and security controls that ensure maximum protection of its hosted data and applications.

“The agreement with Microsoft has increased our management capabilities. It has provided us with virtually unlimited IT infrastructure and enhanced our dynamic adjustment capabilities”, said Pedro Bustamante, Senior Research Advisor at Panda Security.

According to Gonzalo Díe, Director of Platforms and Development at Microsoft Ibérica, “The agreement with Panda Security has strengthened Microsoft’s leadership in the cloud computing arena. We are delighted that Panda Security, the first IT security company to harness the power of cloud computing, has chosen Windows Azure to streamline the processes related to Panda Cloud Office Protection. This partnership shows our continued commitment to bringing the most innovative solutions to market.”

New version with numerous improvements

Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0 is a cloud-based security service for PCs, servers and corporate laptops managed remotely from anywhere through its Web-based console.

The new release includes device control technologies that prevent the spread of malware through the improper use of external devices such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, DVDs and more. These controls will allow organizations to improve productivity by enforcing policies to deny access, force read-only access, or grant total access on multiple device types via a single Web-based console.

In addition, Panda Cloud Office Protection includes policies to block dangerous malware activity, self-protection against malware designed to damage or remove the antivirus, and real-time access to Collective Intelligence, offering one of the best antivirus solutions on the market today.

Migration to Windows Azure

Panda Security decided to migrate its new solution to Windows Azure to be able to manage an even larger number of computers, effectively deploy the service to new countries and prevent service downtime. Windows Azure has provided an adequate work environment and let the company maintain most of the technologies used in the original platform.

The main benefits offered by Windows Azure to Panda Security are:

• Greatly reduces the time required to deploy a new product version.
• Reduces operating and maintenance costs by up to 30 percent.
• Improves certification and quality assurance processes, as it enables technicians to carry out tests in an environment equal to the production environment.
• Improves user-perceived application performance.

The major components of the Windows Azure platform are the following:

• Windows Azure. Windows Azure is a development, service hosting and service management environment that provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.
• Microsoft SQL Azure. Microsoft SQL Azure is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server 2008 technologies.

To download the free beta, please visit: http://www.pandasecurity.com/promotions/betatest/pcop