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Friday, March 2, 2018

Exclusive Networks Expands Operations in the Philippines


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Growing Demand in Cybersecurity Drives Partnerships with Imperva and LogRhythm 


IN PHOTO (FROM L-R): Andrew Draper – AVP for Asia, Imperva; Renato Garcia – Country Manager – Philippines, Exclusive Networks; Ang Chye Hin – Director of Sales (Asia Pacific and Japan), LogRhythm
                                                            
Exclusive Networks, the value-added security and technology (VAST) company, has announced new partnerships with Imperva and LogRhythm that have been forged in response to the growing cybersecurity maturity of Asian markets.

The company also recently acquired Transition Systems Asia, a value-added distributor, as part of its expansion into Asia, including the Philippines.

In the Philippines, the importance of securing citizens against cyber threats is strongly emphasized in the “National Cybersecurity Plan 2022”. This five-year strategy from the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) seeks to raise the country’s cybersecurity awareness and capabilities to global standards.

In crafting the plan, DICT recognizes the importance of protecting every single internet user as well as the Philippines' critical information infrastructure (CII), government networks, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and big businesses and corporations.

Disruptive Distribution

By expanding its operations in Asia and the Philippines, in particular, Exclusive Networks is using its unique capabilities to enhance the region’s cybersecurity posture and foster its own transformative strategy through traditional distribution channels.

Exclusive Networks accelerates market entry and growth for innovative cybersecurity, networking and infrastructure technologies. It works with thousands of reseller companies around the world to boost their business opportunities in cybersecurity and achieve new revenue streams within the changing technology landscape.

Renowned as the ‘go-to’ VAD partner for
disruptive cybersecurity technologies,
Exclusive Networks continually challenges traditional VAD models, redefining value and creating differentiation.  It promotes ‘Disruptive Distribution’, responding to new demands and prospects driven by more than entrepreneurial spirit.  

Exclusive Networks thoroughly screens and analyses hot new vendors before taking the best on-board. Its extensive knowledge of the market allows it to understand emerging trends and opportunities which its partners can then convert into profit-making businesses.

One prominent advantage of this unique disruption of the supply chain is that each national and regional Exclusive Networks business unit is free to react to its own instincts, applying its market experience and cultural awareness, without beingconstrained by bureaucratic hierarchies. These units are easier to do business with and act faster than other resellers.

New Partners

Imperva is a leading provider of data and application security solutions that protect business-critical information on-premises, in the cloud, and across hybrid environments using best-in-class solutions. Imperva’s SecureSphere, Incapsula, and CounterBreach provides granular visibility into how users access data and applications, and uses sophisticated user tracking and classification to detect and block cyberattacks, botnets, unauthorized users and malicious insiders while ensuring compliance.

Imperva is the leader for four consecutive years in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls. Imperva’s application security protects your websites, infrastructure and name servers from low-and-slow and volumetric DDoS attacks 24/7 with web application security testing. It blocks SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and remote file inclusion so your web applications stay secure. Imperva uses multiple security methods like dynamic profiling, rate limiting, and access controls to safeguard vulnerable APIs and mobile applications. 

LogRhythm pioneered Threat Lifecycle Management (TLM) technology, empowering organizations to rapidly detect, respond to and neutralize damaging cyber threats. The TLM platform unifies leading-edge data lake technology, artificial intelligence, security analytics and security automation and orchestration in a single end-to-end solution. It combines people, process, and technology, empowering the cyber team by sorting through the noise to highlight and investigate high-priority threats.

LogRhythm serves as the foundation for the AI-enabled security operations center, helping customers secure their cloud, physical and virtual infrastructures for both IT and OT environments. Its data security and management functionalities allow visibility on all devices and monitor the logs of each device on possible threats using its unique security intelligence analytics SIEM platform.

The LogRhythm Platform uniquely delivers effective end-to-end TLM—from forensic data collection and analysis, through neutralization, to full recovery. It can be easily tailored to help companies meet specific security needs and scale alongside as the organization matures.

LogRhythm’s core Products are LogRhythm Enterprise, a unified, scalable solution for large organizations and LogRhythm XM, an efficient, affordable packaged solution tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises.


For enterprises looking for a solution to detect known and unknown user-based threats, LogRhythm’s User and Entity Behavior Analytics(UEBA) detects anomalous user behavior via machine learning(ML). The solution augments the team’s current security environment, accelerating detection and response so organizations stay ahead as cyberthreats rapidly evolve.

QUOTES

Exclusive Networks
Our expansion into Asia and the Philippines, is part of our overall VAST strategy to be a global leader for various areas of information technology, including cybersecurity. We believe this presents an excellent opportunity for us to promote and establish our disruptive distribution strategy in new markets.

“We are confident that our new partners Imperva and LogRhythm will add significant value to our current mix of innovative solutions and technologies. At the same time, their contributions will strengthen our corporate direction; to be an end-to-end solutions provider that meets local needs and demand,” said Renato Garcia, country manager, Exclusive Networks Philippines.

Imperva
“With this partnership, Imperva will be able to recommend tailored cyber security solutions to the Philippines market. I believe that this partnership with Exclusive Networks will provide better local coverage and service to our clients,” said Andrew Draper, Area Vice President for Asia.

LogRhythm
With Exclusive Networks’ expertise and experience, we trust that our partnership will be able to better address needs of customers in the Philippines and across the region. The Philippines government’s cybersecurity plan underscores the immediate need to overcome the uncertainties and dangers of today’s evolving threat landscape. Organizations will soon need to recognize the need for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in order to become more effective in detecting true threats and minimizing false positives automatically. This is a critical priority especially if organizations want to stay ahead of sophisticated cybercriminals,” said Joanne Wong, Senior Regional Director for Asia Pacific & Japan at LogRhythm

DOTr Partners with JICA, Academe, for Establishment of First-Ever Philippine Railways Institute


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The Department of Transportation (DOTr) partnered with various academic institutions and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in establishing the first-ever Philippine Railways Institute (PRI).

During the first day of Transportation Summit (TransMit) 2018 in Intramuros, Manila yesterday, 1 March 2018, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with various academic institutions to ensure that the country will be able to provide the human and knowledge resources needed to design, build, operate, and maintain the massive railways pipeline under the Duterte Administration’s Build, Build, Build program.

The academic institutions involved in the partnership are TransMit host Mapua University, National University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Technological Institute of the Philippines, and the University of Santo Tomas.

The DOTr and JICA also signed the Records of Discussion, which sets out the steps and timeline for the establishment of the PRI.

Currently, the Philippines only has 77-km. of operational railways. But under the Duterte Administration’s Build Build Build program, the DOTr targets to build 1,900-km. of rails by 2022.

“Delivering this massive railways pipeline will require not just the more than 1 trillion pesos that the government will be investing, it will also require talented and hardworking individuals, especially young and optimistic ones, who are committed to serving the nation,” Undersecretary for Railways TJ Batan said.

He added that while building new railways is important, it is equally important to ensure that the new trains and other components of these new railways are operated and maintained efficiently, reliably, and on a par with international best practices.

The Philippine Railways Institute (PRI) is envisioned to become a training institution and licensing body, which will ensure that all individuals who will operate and maintain the trains, as well as other personnel involved in operations, will have the necessary skills, qualifications, and service-oriented mindset.

"The PRI will ensure that the Philippines' Golden Age of Infrastructure will be sustained and will continue delivering the reliable service that our people deserve long after all of the Build Build Build projects are completed,” Batan said. 

The NEW Fujifilm X-A5 Launch and Ambassadors


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Summer is fast approaching and there is no better way to celebrate it than to capture all those remarkable moments! With the launch of the NEW Fujifilm X-A5, seven new brand ambassadors made sure you’re summer-ready -- Shy Carlos, Issa Pressman, Michelle Dy, Janeena Chan, Bea Benedicto, Chelsea Robato, Katarina Rodriguez and Andi Eigenmann.

Capture your fun adventures with the Fujifilm X-A5, the smallest and lightest mirrorless digital camera from the X Series range. Combining a new 24.2 megapixel sensor with the X Series signature color reproduction technology, the X-A5 levels up with a newly developed zoom lens, 4K movie recording, touch screen, and the latest Bluetooth pairing technology, perfect for all your social media updates!

Is vlogging part of your summer checklist? Just like beauty vlogger Michelle Dy and fitness enthusiast Bea Benedicto, you can document your passions by using the X-A5’s High-speed HD Video function. There is also a 2.5mm microphone jack, for better sound recording. The X-A5 allows you to record your favorite activities in HD video up to quad speed for slow motion slips. You can also have different bokeh-similar effects with its Multi Focus Mode. It automatically stacks 4K quality images while cleverly changing the depth of field required. Now you won’t miss a snap with X-A5’s 4K Burst function -- shooting 15 frames per second in 4K image quality.

Summer sunshine makes anyone feel bright and vibrant. Capture your good side by having perfect selfies and groufies with the X-A5’s touch screen 180-degree tilting rear LCD Screen. The 180-degree rotation also activates the Eye AF function. This helps our beauty mavens, blogger and host Janeena Chan and Miss Intercontinental 2017 First Runner-up Katarina Rodriguez take high-quality self-portraits by focusing on their eyes. It also has the three-level Portrait Enhancer Mode, which improves skin tone. It really is the perfect gadget to level-up those summer selfies!

For our resident island girls, actress Andi Eigenmann and model Chelsea Robato, harsh sunlight is no longer a problem. Take in summer’s vivid lighting with X-A5’s increased range of ISO Sensitivity extended to ISO 128000, and feel free to be artistic with its Film Simulation Modes. Aside from its standard 11 film simulation modes, the X-A5 also has 2 new advanced features -- Fog Remove and HDR Art.  The new intuitive touch-panel GUI LCD facilitates a live view of film simulations, which allows you to choose the filter you want to use.


For singer Issa Presmann and actress Shy Carlos, summer in the city wont be boring at all as you can still capture those sun-kissed skylines with the Fujifilm X-A5! With its newly developed 24.2 megapixel APS-C sensor partnered with Fujinon lenses, the X-A5 levels up your run-of-the-mill photos with better image resolution, thus ensuring finer details of photo’s texture, form, and even the atmosphere of your chosen landscape. It outperforms previous models in terms of SR+AUTO mode, color reproduction performance and “skin tone” reproduction capability.

The new Fujifilm X-A5 comes in three colors -- pink, brown, and silver. This compact camera comes with a new kit lens, XC15-45mmF3.5-5.6 OIS PZ, currently the smallest and lightest zoom lens. It is the first electric power zoom in the Fujinon Lens Family and has a minimum shooting distance of 5cm from the lens surface for macro.

Apart from the new ambassadors, present during the Fujifilm X-A5 launch are photography enthusiasts Ramon Bautista, Roxanne Barcelo, Victor Basa, Jay Contreras, Sarah Abad, Kim Cruz, Kerwin King, Deegee Razon, Shaira Luna, Reese Lansangan, Erika Rabara, and Lharby Policarpio.

Join this summer’s stylish set of ambassadors by getting yourself the hottest accessory this season, the Fujifilm X-A5!

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