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Telefónica Extends Partnership with Allot and McAfee to Help Protect Spanish SMEs

Telefónica Extends Partnership with Allot and McAfee to Help Protect Spanish SMEs Image Credit: Telefónica

Telefónica has expanded its partnership with Allot and McAfee to duplicate the infrastructure and resources needed to protect Spanish SMEs through the Movistar Secure Enterprise Connection Service.

This solution, managed by ElevenPaths, the cybersecurity company of Telefónica Tech and which works as a platform installed at the heart of Telefónica´s network, helps to prevent the employees from visiting websites reported as dangerous and inappropiate for their content, the identity theft of one site by another, and the capture of data fraudulently. It also helps to safeguard employees’ fixed and mobile devices in the event of loss and theft, even when connected to the Internet from outside the corporate network. 

The agreement will add the new versión of McAfee MultiAccess that includes privacy control capabilities for between 5 and 10 devices by usage licenses and the latest evolutions of the Allot platform, which features a new user portal with more capabilities.

So far in 2020, the number of SMEs in Spain that has subscribed to the service thas tripled, exceding the forecasts of the companies and has enables them to expand the platform almost 3 years earlier than initially planned. Since the end of March, despite de economic constraint imposed by the pandemic, customer demand has continued to grow at double-digit monthly rates.

Jesús Sánchez-Aguilera, Head of Consumer and SME EMEA of McAfee
SMB digitalization has been intensified due to the current special situation, which has forced consumers and small companies to implement new models where aspects like working from home have become critical. 

Francisco Cayuela Delgado, Vice President of Sales for Telefónica and Latam at Allot
The Allot network-based security as a service solution is very easy for customers to acquire and use, leaking to rapid and broad adoption, and its success for SMBs proves the importance for operators to provice secure broadband access to their customers.

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