Safaricom bags award for Enterprise IT Security Solution

 

Safaricom has been recognized as the Best-Managed Security Services Provider in East Africa by Fortinet, an American cybersecurity corporation.

Safaricom emerged top in the category by achieving the fastest and most efficient evaluation, deployment and operation of the technology among small, medium and large enterprises in the market.

“We are very honoured to win this award as it is a true reflection of our comprehensive understanding of the unique security needs that businesses of different sizes have especially with the recent push to digitize operations," CEO Peter Ndegwa said.

"This accolade acknowledges that we have made significant investments into reducing the complexity of safeguarding enterprises against cybersecurity attacks. We have done this in order to empower businesses and allow them to leverage the power of technology to take their businesses forward."

With the shift to remote working during the pandemic, a surge in the flow of information has unlocked more avenues for cybercriminals.

Further, security breaches are becoming more sophisticated and intruders have acquired advanced skills and developed radical evasion techniques to enter enterprise networks unnoticed, playing on the knowledge and access gaps that still exist among businesses seeking to tackle such issues.

“This award is a great motivation to us as we remain committed to providing multi-faceted security functions together with our partners to defend our enterprise customers against such attacks and meet their diverse needs,” he said.

Safaricom has been building capacity to broaden its IT security solutions since it launched a wide range of cybersecurity solutions for enterprise customers in 2019.

Fortinet enables partners to deliver broad and integrated high-performance network security and networking services and ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide.