Panda Security, the Spanish multinational leader in endpoint security solutions, and Stormshield, the French leader in enterprise network protection, have announced the establishment of a European strategic alliance, combining their expertise to more efficiently secure companies’ IT infrastructures and environments and help them with their digital transformation. Through this strategic alliance, customers will have access to unique solutions designed to detect and mitigate both known and unknown threats to networks, workstations, and servers. This offer will give customers a comprehensive and unified visibility of threats.

The agreement offers users the best of Stormshield and Panda Security solutions to secure their IT infrastructures and workstations.

An innovative security solution

In addition to providing customers with a unified, 100% European solution that integrates the best of both network and endpoint security technology, this cooperation will enable the two partners to share their expertise and knowledge of different threats in order to significantly increase their customers’ level of protection. Notably, Stormshield will share its expertise in security for industrial networks and operational technology. In general, Panda Security and Stormshield will collaborate closely to deliver effective protection against known and unknown threats. This one-of-a-kind collaboration in Europe signals the central role these two European IT companies intend to play in the cybersecurity market, and more specifically in the area of digital infrastructure protection.

It delivers cybersecurity management needed to protect companies from data breaches that cost €3.7 million on average.

Juan Santamaria, General Manager for Panda Security commented, “The next-generation firewalls and UTM features offered by Stormshield Network Security effectively secure our customers’ networks, delivering the best price/performance ratio on the market. This solution offers a much-needed, comprehensive response for traditional, industrial, and cloud infrastructures.”

Matthieu Bonenfant, Marketing Director for Stormshield, stated, “Panda Security is uniquely positioned in the market for workstation protection and advanced cybersecurity solutions. With its Adaptive Defense solution, all of our customers – regardless of their size – benefit from next-generation security that is easy to deploy and maintain. This solution fits perfectly with the existing Stormshield Endpoint Security offer mainly dedicated to industrial, operational and sensitive environments. We are proud of this new alliance and how it underscores our commitment to propose a large-scale European solution for end-to-end security of our customers’ environments.”

(1) 2016 Ponemon Institute Cost of a Data Breach Study

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