Skybox Security has announced a 154-per cent increase in year-over- year revenue earned from
Indian business in 2016. The company’s customer base in India consists of national and global
enterprises, including ten of the India-based Forbes Global 2000 organizations.
Skybox has recently opened an India support centre in Bangalore, providing additional technical
support to customers in the country and APAC region. Skybox also works with 15 top-tier
channel partners in India, including Mahindra SSG, Valuepoint Techsol, Wipro and HCL, adding
value to existing offerings through the platform’s integration with more than 100 networking and
security technologies organizations are already using.
“A $460-million market and one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world
demands dedicated attention,” said Avi Corfas, Skybox Vice-President of Asia-Pacific and Latin
America. “Internet penetration and adoption of ‘leapfrog’ technologies like WLAN, mobile
devices and virtualized networks are driving growth because they bring with them a dramatically
different threat landscape and security management challenges. These challenges make
security analytics and comprehensive network visibility vital to safeguard the organization.”
Growth in cybersecurity is being driven in part by the Indian Government, which has recognized
the need to strengthen the country’s cyber defenses. As part of its Digital India initiative, the
National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Center (NCIIPC) recently released 40
tenets to improve cybersecurity in organizations essential to the economy, health and defense
of India. In addition to these new guidelines are a patchwork of existing regulatory requirements
laid out by India’s Reserve Bank and Securities and Exchange Board, as well as the Institute for
Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) and the Payment Card Industry’s
(PCI) Data Security Standard.
“Compliance may be the number one operational challenge for Indian businesses – most
businesses, for that matter,” said Sridhar Namachivayan, Skybox Regional Director of India and
SAARC. “Without network automation to streamline workflows, data collection and analysis,
tracking and reporting, security teams simply can’t keep up with compliance requirements. On
top of that workload, they must also be concerned with the needs of the business and the day-
to-day protection of their organization.” Namachivayan offers advice to companies struggling to
overcome these challenges.
