Bharti Airtel enters into strategic partnership with Symantec

Mumbai, Aug 29: Bharti Airtel has entered into a strategic partnership with Symantec Corp to serve the growing cyber security requirements of businesses in India, providing protection and prevention of online threats in an increasingly digitally connected world. Under the terms of the agreement, Airtel will be the exclusive Cyber Security Services partner for Symantec in India, and will distribute Symantec's enterprise security software. The partnership aims to leverage Airtel's strength in India's Business to Business (B2B) segment, helping them address the challenges of the Cloud Generation with Symantec's innovative Integrated Cyber Defense Platform. As Indian enterprises embrace cloud applications and infrastructure, they require security technologies built for this new cloud-based environment to gain the upper hand on adversaries. The partnership will give customers stronger protection and prevention, greater visibility and better control of critical assets, users and data. UNI