Proofpoint has appointed Obscure Technologies as its main distributor in South Africa with effect from 3 March 2021.
Centurion-based Obscure Technologies is a firm of cyber security experts specialising in brokering best of breed security solutions in the local market.
Having served as a distributor of Proofpoint solutions for the past year, Obscure Technologies has invested in strengthening its team’s skill set and certifications across the Proofpoint portfolio, and has appointed a new dedicated business unit manager to serve as an extension of the Proofpoint workforce in the local region.
Rynier Schoeman, the new Proofpoint business unit manager at Obscure Technologies, says Obscure Technologies has grown to a significant cyber security powerhouse on the strength of its high-level skills and focus on only market-leading solutions to address key local challenges.
Schoeman believes Proofpoint ably meets the changing needs of local large enterprises. “With email the main attack vector, and Africa among the regions most under attack in recent years, we see growing demand for enterprise grade, feature rich email security solutions, as well as security awareness and training,” he says. “Proofpoint answers that need and more, and integrates seamlessly with many of the other solutions in our portfolio. As a result, it is a good fit for our cyber security portfolio and is seeing growing demand in the South African enterprise market.”
Proofpoint, a global cybersecurity and compliance leader, takes a people-centric approach to protection, offering an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions to stop targeted threats, safeguard customers’ data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. More than half of the Fortune 1000 companies rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions that mitigate their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.