“We would be very aggressive with our top 10 partners in India”
In a conversation with PC Quest, Shrenik Bhayani, General ManagerSouth Asia speaks about Kaspersky‘s performance in India
HOW KASPERSKY IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS?
What we are doing is creating an environment within the organization in which the focus is around the customer business; it focuses around the enterprises &the infrastructure business. Each of the flavors is different because the market opportunity as well as the engagement into the market is very different. And in terms of consumer space I guess we are pretty much a establish brand. As per my knowledge kaspersky is the only company which is playing a big role in security infrastructure. But it takes some times in terms of customer environment. We also have to see what the vernablity in the environment are and then we propose the right solution around them.
WHAT IS THE CONTRIBUTION OF CONSUMER BUSINESS IN INDIA FOR KASPERSKY?
In India at this point time it’s closed to 65 to 70% of consumer business. And the balance is the enterprise business. The critical infrastructure business itself got launched last year. And currently we are driving 2 POC in India. I can’t name them but we have 2 of them in India. The critical infrastructure is with the government’s POC and the 2nd one under discussion. Here in POC we are talking about large scale power plants. It’s anything in larger scale which is getting digitized. And the moment it gets digitized eventually means that there is an element in cyber security aspects which is in the focus. The 2nd aspect is the enterprise market. Where our focus is on anty-targeted solutions and what I mean by that is today in the enterprise a lot of people looks for the point solutions. So our offerings to enterprises are not only the product but it also about services.
IS KASPERSKY PERFORMING A ROLE OF MSP?
We are not an MSP. But we have been partner with enterprises who potentially are MSP’s or wished to be an MSSP which is a manage security service provider. A manage security service provider will effectively come in with their own service providers and OEM would come in with product offerings. Largely there is a shortage of skin set even at the customer side may be in terms of overall understanding of security service security and their own environment. So we will partner with MSSP we are already in some partnerships. For us every GTM for SME’s in the country is via channels. For enterprises we will look at larger channels to understand enterprise business. But also it should have an understanding of cyber security business and maybe there are potential channels who want to invest and we will invest as well and create the business together. Today we have more than thousand plus channels in the country and the larger part of this channel are focused around the SME’s. In terms of our enterprise presence we do have 10 -15 channels which do really quality enterprise business. We are now looking at some new channels who is either aspiring to be an MSP or who are already an MSSP. Overall we would play very aggressive with our top 10 player who are a kaspersky partner for very long time. I would onboard 10 to 15 very right channel in terms of targeting our enterprise business and than we would look at the whole critical infrastructure. There is a lot of marketing activities. We featured live with our brand campaign last month so we have our hoarding. Our ads are getting played in the major radio channels and we are pretty much in the metro station in Mumbai and Delhi metro as well.