Renton D’Souza, Vice President, Comstor MEA, explores the evolution of security offerings in an era of artificial intelligence as well as their partnership with Cisco.
Q: How is Cisco’s Security solution evolving in the era of Artificial Intelligence?
A: Securing today’s complex, hyper-distributed digital landscape can no longer be done at human scale, as attacks have become more sophisticated. Considering these challenges, Cisco is shaping innovations across the Security Cloud to both power and protect the AI revolution. The new capabilities across Cisco’s unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform help companies better protect their applications, devices, users, and data as well as detect, respond and recover faster from incidents.
Q: What are some of the strategic initiatives Cisco has taken to further strengthen its Security offering?
A: Through innovations like Cisco Hypershield and strategic acquisitions like Splunk and Isovalent, the power of Cisco’s security platform is supercharged and unmatched. These strategic initiatives have enabled Cisco to truly reimagine security at an AI-scale. With its advanced Security offering, Cisco remains focussed at defending customers against the entire attack chain – from detecting and blocking not just known but also unknown vulnerabilities with Cisco Hypershield, to stopping the increasing barrage of identity attacks with Cisco Duo, and reimagining the security operations centre (SOC) with Splunk. Overall, Cisco has built a security solution that truly enables security analysts to move faster and make more informed decisions with contextual insights and automated workflows.
Q: How is Comstor helping partners maximize the opportunity with Cisco Security?
A: As the largest Cisco-exclusive distributor, we remain committed to helping our partners maximize the growth opportunities with Cisco.
Since Cisco are investing hugely in security, we have launched our biggest ever security enablement programme for the partners. As a part of this program, partners not only get access to an unparalleled and rapidly growing team of cybersecurity experts from Comstor but they also get support in achieving their own specialisations with Cisco.
As a part of the program, Comstor is also providing enhanced and exclusive training with Cisco Secure 360, a unique training programme providing tools that partners need to position the Cisco Security portfolio. Partners who enroll into the program also get access to the Cisco Security Deal Concierge Service. As a part of this service, an exclusive resource is dedicated to giving strategic support for deals based on customer need.
Partners also get access to incredibly rich opportunity data that Comstor’s Intelligent Demand team have aggregated from multiple sources. Furthermore, partners can benefit from exclusive marketing assets to drive their end user demand generation.
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