SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Lookout, the
global leader in securing mobility, has entered into a strategic
alliance with Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), a Fortune 100 company
that delivers a full spectrum of global technology and supply chain
services to businesses around the world. This agreement allows
Ingram Micro channel partners access to Lookout's Mobile Threat Protection security
solution and future Lookout
products that leverage its comprehensive intelligence and
understanding of the mobile threat landscape.
"Every mobile workforce faces security challenges," said
Eric Kohl, executive director,
Advanced Solutions, Ingram Micro. "Delivering a compelling,
differentiated security solution that embraces mobility, rather
than restricts it, provides Lookout's channel partners with a services
advantage enterprises value and businesses will rely
on."
Employee access to corporate data via mobile devices has grown
significantly in the last few years, and it continues to rise.
Today, employees likely have mobile access to email and a few
business-related apps, like CRM or expenses. But with enterprise
app development exploding, workers will soon be using mobile
devices to consume, create, and share just as much, if not more,
enterprise data, than they do on their laptops or desktops. In
fact, IDC predicts that "IT spending on mobility-related products,
projects, and initiatives will grow from 25 percent of IT budgets
in 2015 to 40 percent of large (>1,000 employees) enterprise IT
budgets in 2018."1 Forward-looking companies, including
Ingram Micro, recognize this surge in mobility and are teaming with
Lookout to offer channel partners
the security measures necessary to effectively protect enterprise
data that is accessed via mobile devices.
"Although our flagship enterprise product, Lookout Mobile Threat
Protection, launched in June 2015, we
began recruiting distributors, systems integrators, and VARs
several months in advance to ensure delivery on our promise to sell
our enterprise products 100 percent through the channel from day
one," said David Helfer, VP of
Worldwide Channel Development and Inside Sales, Lookout. "We've been successful in securing
these relationships because this channel-first go-to-market
strategy fosters tremendous bi-directional value between the
Lookout team and our alliance
partners."
Lookout's devoted go-to-market
channel model indeed sets it apart from many SaaS providers, who
often launch with a direct sales model and struggle to recruit
channel partners at a later date. The Lookout approach creates trust with channel
partners, provides access to important services and integration
skills within the channel, offers a route into new customers, and
gives Lookout the flexibility to
align with the business models of different partner types.
Lookout Mobile Threat Protection allows large enterprises to
embrace mobility in the workplace while protecting company data,
securing against malicious attacks, and maintaining compliance with
security policies through effective risk management. Lookout's tremendous success in the consumer
market has enabled it to assemble a dataset of the world's mobile
code to track threats from known attackers and predict new,
never-before-seen threats. Lookout Mobile Threat Protection extends
this predictive security platform to the enterprise, helping
organizations anticipate and defeat mobile threats.
For more information about Lookout, Ingram Micro channel partners can
contact their Ingram Micro sales representative.
About Lookout
Lookout is a cybersecurity company that
predicts and stops mobile attacks before harm is done to an
individual or an enterprise. Lookout's cloud-based technology is fueled by
a global network of more than 100 million sensors and tens of
thousands of apps that are added daily. With this dataset of
virtually all the mobile code in the world and the predictive
machine intelligence to analyze and make sense of the data,
Lookout can identify connections
that would otherwise go unseen and stop cybercriminals from
attacking mobile devices. The world's leading mobile network
operators, including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, EE, KDDI, Orange,
Sprint, T-Mobile and Telstra, have selected Lookout as its preferred mobile security
solution. Headquartered in San
Francisco, Lookout has
offices in Amsterdam, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit
www.lookout.com.
1 IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Mobility 2016
Predictions, Nov 2015, Doc
#259815
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