Velvot Nigeria Limited has announced its partnership with leading British Cyber-Security company, Sophos Group Plc, to deliver world-class IT and cyber-security solutions to African businesses. Effective from May 15, 2021, Velvot Nigeria Limitedbecomesa Sophos Authorized Partner. This development was communicated to the Velvot management through a mail on May…..2021.
As a leading Tech company in Africa, Velvot offers innovative Tech and IT solutions such as Cloud Services, Automation and Collaboration, Application Development, Security and Compliance, complete Microsoft tools, domain creation and web hosting, among others. Velvot has spread its tentacles across 47 African countries, delivering top-notch IT products and services; it has also helped many smart businesses and organizations transition seamlessly from manual processes to digitalization of their entire sales processes, among other things.
Sophos Group Plc is a worldwide leader in next-generation cyber-security, protecting more than 500,000 organizations and millions of consumers in more than 150 counties, from today’s most advance cyber-threats. Sophos is powered by Threat-Intelligence to deliver a broad portfolio of advanced products and services to secure users, networks and endpoints against ransomware, malware, or phishing and the wide range of other cyber-attacks.
Not only these, in terms of service delivery, Sophos provides a single intergrated cloud-based managemertt console- Sophos central, which is the centerpiece of an adaptive cyber-security ecosystem, that features a centralized data lake, which in turn leverages a rich set of open APIs. These are made available to customers, partners, developers and other cyber-security vendors.
Sophos engages resellers, partners and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), who provide Sophos products and services to end-users. Velvot has recently become a Sophos partner.
As one of Sophos partners, Velvot will be delivering some of Sophos cutting-edge products and services alongside its own; some of these products and services include:
1. Sophos Endpoint or Sophos Intercept X: This is the world best endpoint security, combinig ransomeware protection, deep learning malware detection, exploit prevention. EDX, XDR, and more- all in a single solution.
2. Managed Threat Response (MTR): This is a 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and response delivered by an expert team, as a fully-managed service. It goes beyond simply notifying you of attacks or suspicious behaviours, it takes targeted actions on your behalf, to neutralize even the most sophisticated and complex threats.
3. Cloud Optix: This product delivers the continuous analysis and visibility organizations need to detect, respond to, and prevent security and compliance gaps, while finding ways to optimize cloud speed.
4. Sophos Email: This is cloud email security delivered simply through Sophos central easy-to-use single management console. It protects sensitive data and your users from unwanted and malicious email threats, with the latest artificial intelligence.
One may be tempted to ask what Velvot hopes to achieve through this milestone of a partnership with leading cyber-security outfit, Sophos. The benefits are numerous, not only for the Velvot team but also for many businesses in Africa that face or might face cyber-threats. Here are some of the benefits of Velvot’s partnership with Sophos Group:
1. Velvot will become one of Sophos’ representatives in Africa to offer world-class cyber-security services.
2. This partnership will provide a powerful platform for businesses and organizations in Africa to access world-class products and services to protect their day to day affairs from cyber-threats.
3. As a partner, Velvot’s staff will be given advanced training on threat-management and other cyber-security skills, and they in turn, can begin to offer cyber-security training to IT vendors and other businesses.
4. Velvot will become a trusted cloud advisor to empower potential clients to migrate safely to cloud; provide tools to protect their data in the cloud, and also offer industry-leading protection across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
5. By this partnership, Velvot will be integrated into a global synchronized security system, and its profit base will increase because its clientele will also increase.
Above all, Velvot will ensure ultimate service delivery and customers’ satisfaction, with the range of products and services it will be offering. According to the Chief Executive Officer of Velvot Nigeria Limited, Aliyu Garba, “Velvot is committed to ensure accelerated growth to businesses in Africa through our products and services; our partnership with Sophos Group PLC will only increase our visibility and reach, and also improve our service delivery. We will not only be delivering IT and cloud solutions, but also products and services that will ensure safety from cyber-threats”.
