Palo Alto Networks Partners with Ingram Micro to Bring Okyo Garde to Small Businesses
October 07, 2021 at 09:00 am EDT
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Palo Alto Networks announced it has signed an agreement with Ingram Micro Inc., a global leader in technology and supply chain services, for Ingram Micro to distribute the Palo Alto Networks Okyo™ Garde cybersecurity solution to its value-added resellers and technology solutions providers, who will bring Okyo Garde to small businesses across the United States. On September 10, Palo Alto Networksannounced Okyo Garde, a new cybersecurity offering that combines hardware, software and security services into one simple subscription, delivered through a premium mesh-enabled Wi-Fi 6 system and tailored for small businesses and workplaces that include the office and the home. In a given year, more than 2 out of 3 small businesses in the U.S. can expect to experience a cyberattack.1Okyo Garde is designed from the ground up, with security first, to give small businesses without dedicated IT support unparalleled threat protection with the ease of managing its service through a mobile app. Starting in October 2021, Ingram Micro will offer Okyo Garde for small businesses to its established and growing network of channel partners in the U.S. focused on this segment. Ingram Micro's technology and supply chain expertise will help thousands of partners serve small businesses, while Palo Alto Networks' security capabilities will help partners bring critical cybersecurity technology that helps protect the large enterprises to small companies across the U.S. Ingram Micro's channel partners will offer end customers a hardware-as-a-service (HWaaS) consumption model, helping small businesses reduce overhead costs and streamline purchasing.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. specializes in the development and implementation of IT security solutions for the enterprise. The group's activity is organized around three divisions:
- managed security services: data center management and storage of data in the cloud, data backup and recovery process management, real-time management and monitoring of IT infrastructure and applications, etc.;
- development of cybersecurity solutions: software solutions for detecting threats and intrusions, protecting against malicious programs, securing data, networks and computer systems (antivirus, anti-spam, web filtering, firewalls, etc.);
- security consulting services: training and updates on threats before, during and after attacks, risk management, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: America (68.5%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (19.7%) and Asia/Pacific (11.8%).