Wile maintaining a bullish outlook on India, Syntensia, a pioneer in security on-demand solutions, is focussing on expanding its small and medium business (SMB) market in India by providing affordable and comprehensive ‘Security-as-a-Service’ solution based on a subscription model.
“Syntensia plans to offer a complete suite of security services to SMBs at a competitive price. Our security services are today available at just $55 per month making it economical for the SMBs,” said Kaushik Thakkar, vice-chairman, Syntensia.
The Sweden-based company is planning to rope in four more regional distributors in cities like Hyderabad, Chennai, apart from the already existing six regional distributors.
Next in the line are the Tier 1/II cities. With channels across major metros, SMBs across smaller cities are the next area of focus for our subscription-based security offerings.” Thakkar added.
Syntensia’s subscription model typically bundles everything into a single subscription fee, including automatic updates, maintenance and 24 X 7 technical support, thus enabling organizations to eliminate upfront costs, provides a predictable cost structure, ensures quality of service, and the freedom to re-evaluate the solution decision any time.
Syntensia series of plug-and-play ready appliances integrate several crucial security features such as Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Prevention Service, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Surf Protection, Spyware Guarding, Access Management, Bandwidth Management, Traffic Monitoring, and Efficient Reporting in a single management platform. All that the customer has to do is to install a small set-top box kind of plug-and-play ready device from the company. Any additional settings are configured remotely by the Syntensia support team and all updates and upgrades are automatically downloaded over the Internet.
That apart, the company plans to increase its headcount in India. Syntensia aiming to capitalise on the favourable investment climate and the immense business potential that India offers.
“Also the company is launching VoIP-on-demand to its list of services soon. The company is also planning tap more customers by giving them the best in terms of more services, which would complement our growth,” Thakkar added.
