KUALA LUMPUR, 5 MAY 2009 – A thin-client anti-virus solution will help protect cloud users, according to Spanish security firm Panda Security, which also opened its regional base in Malaysia.
Panda Security chief executive officer, Juan Santana, said: “Panda Cloud Antivirus is a radically new protection model with lightweight thin-client agent and real-time scanning-from-the-cloud, which is a community-based protection system that automatically classifies new malware in under six minutes with 50 per cent less impact on PC performance.”
“By moving the entire malware scanning and determination process to the cloud and applying non-intrusive interception techniques on the client architecture, Panda Cloud Antivirus is able to provide advanced protection against new and unknown viruses with a lightweight thin-client agent that barely consumes any PC resources,” said Santana.
Malaysia: new regional base
Santana said Malaysia has been selected to be the company’s Southeast Asia (SEA) regional office covering Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei. “Panda Security has been operating successfully in this country since 2004. This move is part of the company’s plan to reinforce its presence and to expand into SEA markets. Despite the economic meltdown, Panda Security strongly believes SEA is a strategic market to maximise growth opportunities in the anti-virus and security market sector.”
“Over the last five years, Panda Security Malaysia made great progress in penetrating the government and corporate sectors,” added Santana. “Furthermore, it also has a team of fully trained and certified engineers to attend to our customer’s needs. Malaysia is the logical choice for regional office as it has the right infrastructure and knowledge workers for our kind of business.”
“These are exciting times for the security market sector,” said Panda Security’s SEA head, T.S. Wong. “The growing malware threats will make security a necessity. Our commitment to excellence in products and services has been the backbone of our success in Malaysia, and we hope to bring this across to the rest of the region.”
