Hosted Antivirus Service can be customized for channel.

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As fully outsourced security SaaS, Panda Managed Office Protection(TM) v5.02 lets channel partners centralize management of desktop malware protection for all clients, from one Web console, for secure and remote management of their local networks. VARs and MSPs can offer SMEs, or large organizations with branch offices, fully outsourced security as long-term, value-added service. Other features include custom branding, key protection/license status summaries, and management delegation.



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Panda Security Customizes Hosted Antivirus Service for the Channel; Delivers Greater Profitability and Cost Savings



New Version of Panda Managed Office Protection Provides Channel Partners with Value-Added Security Services for SMB Clients

GLENDALE, Calif., Oct. 21 -- Panda Security (http://www.pandasecurity.com/), a world leader in IT security, today announced significant enhancements to Panda Managed Office Protection(TM), the Company's Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and their value added resellers (VARs). Panda Managed Office Protection 5.02 offers Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and VARs a more robust, fully-outsourced security service that eases the burden of network security for SMBs and allows them to concentrate on their core business with no need for investment in additional infrastructure.

Panda Managed Office Protection allows channel partners to centralize the management of desktop malware protection for all clients from a single Web console, for secure and remote management of clients' local networks. With greater simplicity and ease-of-use, VARs and MSPs can offer small to medium enterprises, or large organizations with branch offices, fully outsourced security as a long-term, value-added service, thereby increasing profitability and cost savings.

"With shrinking IT budgets, it is essential that companies big and small don't lose sight of protecting their assets and that of their customers," said Ryan Sherstobitoff, chief corporate evangelist, Panda Security. "Panda Managed Office Protection provides small businesses with the confidence that their networks are secure without the additional resource investment, and enables the VARs offering it with a valued added security solution for long-term growth and success."

New features and improvements in version 5.02 include:

-- Custom branding: Security resellers now have the option to customize this service at all levels with their own logo, headers, and packaging.

-- Improved global client management: The improved management console interface summarizes key protection and license status information about all clients for better usability.

-- Greater integration with partners' management services: The new release allows partners to easily integrate their logos with routine client reports, thereby demonstrating the efficacy of the protection. A new Executive Report with information and graphs displays detection activity and protection status over the last 24 hours.

-- Reduced productivity losses for clients: Channel partners can now offer clients the highest levels of protection with a minimal use of resources. This is made possible through an optimized system of peer-to-peer (P2P) updates across local networks to minimize bandwidth consumption.

The management console enables delegation of management tasks to other users who have been granted administration or monitoring privileges over the selected groups of clients. It also allows client organizations to be structured in as many layers as required, providing far greater flexibility, efficiency and management optimization, all key features of Panda's Security-as-a-Service solutions.

Panda Security's proprietary cloud computing technology, called Collective Intelligence, enhances the product with unparalleled proactive malware protection. Collective Intelligence maximizes malware detection capabilities while minimizing the resource and bandwidth consumption of protected systems by automatically detecting, correlating and responding to malware found across an entire network of PCs, versus locally. Additionally, by hosting all of the information in the cloud and providing a Web-based console for the IT administrator, total cost of ownership is kept to a minimum and there is no need to invest in dedicated security servers.

For more information about Panda Managed Office Protection, please visit http://pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/managedprotection/.

About Panda Security

Panda Security is one of the world's leading IT security providers, with millions of clients around the globe and products available in over twenty languages. Our mission is to keep our customers' information and IT assets safe from security threats, giving them the most effective protection with minimum resource consumption.

Every day, thousands of new malicious codes are created. To combat this threat, Panda Security has developed an innovative and unique security model which can automatically analyze and classify thousands of new malware samples. This model is collective intelligence and ensures that Panda Security solutions can protect against far more threats than the products of any other company. The exceptional detection capacity of collective intelligence can be put to the test at the Infected or Not website (http://www.infectedornot.com/).

For more information and evaluation versions of all Panda Security solutions, visit our website at: http://www.pandasecurity.com/.

CONTACT: Bill Bourdon of Bateman Group, +1-415-602-1491, panda@bateman-group.com, for Panda Security

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