GITEX: Secureworks strengthens MEA presence with GM appointment and mid-market approach

Secureworks® has appointed Gopan Sivasankaran as General Manager, as it continues to expand across the region. The Middle East and Africa division of Secureworks is based in Dubai, and it continues to invest in its Global Partner Program and regional resellers.

Incident Responders, Program Managers, Customer Success Managers, Security Architects, Penetration Testers, and Implementation Engineers make up the regional team, which is backed up by a sales and marketing function. To meet rising client demand, new hires are being recruited to the team.

A cyber security industry veteran, Gopan, joined Secureworks 8 years ago as the first employee on the ground in the region. He commented on the developments the company has made in that time, “Secureworks’ significant progress in the region is reflected by our growing customer base, as we work closely with our channel partners to provide XDR and deliver managed service capabilities that help businesses confront adversaries and deal with the increasing number of global threats.”

He added, “We’ve made a conscious effort to focus on the MEA mid-market to ensure that our world-class SOC and cloud-native solutions are available to as many businesses as possible. Secureworks has a strong presence in the region. Our solutions are deployed with hundreds of large and mid-sized organizations across different verticals, including manufacturing and financial services. We also deliver consulting engagements that consist of incident response, threat hunting and pen-testing.”

Secureworks recently opened a data storage facility in the European Union to better serve customers in this region. It also collaborates with reputable partners in the Middle East and India who run managed SOC facilities.

Taegis XDR, a cloud-native solution that combines Secureworks’ SecOps knowledge and threat intelligence capabilities to identify and respond to threats across cloud, endpoint, and network environments, is available from the global security solutions provider. Taegis XDR is available directly from Secureworks or a Secureworks MSSP in MEA as a SaaS or managed service.

MEA customers include IFFCO, one of the region’s largest producers of processed food and agricultural commodities. Goutam Pudota, Group Head of Information Security, said, “We enjoy a very good partnership with Secureworks in terms of how our SOC is managed. They provide us with much more than just a set of tools. Secureworks provides us with a dedicated managed service. We work together to manage IFFCO’s cyber security program.”

Secureworks signed a new distribution arrangement with Redington Value, one of the region’s value-added distributors, to assure customers’ increased availability of signature Taegis goods.

Mr. Sayantan Dev, President at Reding ton Value, explained, “With over 20 years MSSP experience, Secureworks is well placed to support resellers, MSP and MSSPs that are looking to adopt threat detection and response solutions powered by the Taegis platform. We recently strengthened our partnership with Secureworks, meaning we’re now able to offer our channel partners the opportunity to grow their portfolios and improve the security posture of businesses throughout the Middle East and Africa.”