India's leading manufacturer of watches: Titan Industries relies on ESET for its IT Security

DELHI – June 3, 2009 – ESS Software Distribution Consulting (P) Ltd., ESET's Exclusive Distributor in India, today announced that Titan Industries Ltd; the worlds fifth largest and India's leading manufacturer of watches, is using total security solution ESET Smart Security for the protection of their network against evolving IT threats.

Headquartered in Bangalore, Titan Industries is the most admired brand of India. The company has manufactured more than a 100 million watches till date; and has a customer base of over 80 million. Titan focuses on acquiring, developing and exploring new market opportunities. Watches are sold through exclusive 'World of Titan' showrooms and at 12,000 outlets in more than 2,500 cities in India and internationally in over 30 countries.

In this working process Titan Industries actively uses Internet which is the main source of viruses and malwares. Hence Titan Industries required an antivirus solution which would offer reliable protection for the computer systems. Also Titan Industries required an antivirus solution which would provide comprehensive protection to their servers and workstations, light weight, fast, easy to operate and having a centralized management tool. To select the right antivirus solution Titan evaluated almost all the popular antivirus solutions available in the market. They especially considered Symantec, MacAfee and ESET security solution. All the antivirus solutions were evaluated by their IT professionals. After thorough evaluation and analysis of all the features offered by different antivirus solution, Titan Industries preferred ESET Smart Security. Consequently Titan Industries purchased 750 licenses of ESET Smart Security Business Edition.

The ESET Smart Security pre-sales product demonstration, evaluation, technical assistance, deployment and installation process on the network of Titan Industries were handled by Mr. Tushar Majumdar, BDM, Prudente Solutions, Bangalore who is a local business Premium Partner of ESS Software Distribution and Consulting (P) Ltd . The entire process was managed with the support of Mr. Riyaz Sayyed, General Manager and Mr. Pratyush Mohanan, Technical Support Manager, ESS Software Distribution and Consulting (P) Ltd.

Built on the award-winning ThreatSense® technology, ESET Smart Security proactively detects and disables all threats. Combining the industry's most comprehensive protection with unprecedented scanning speed and minimal resource utilization ESET Smart Security was the best security solution Titan Industries could count on. ESET Smart Security Business Edition has the feature of centralized administration which enables creating the configurations for all the workstations - some on the network connected locally and a few remotely using VPN's. ESET Remote Administrator simplifies the management of ESET software security products for businesses while keeping network overhead low. From a central management console, an administrator can quickly respond to threats, update signature databases, run reports, and install and manage ESET solutions. This enables clients to have the latest updates no matter if they are connected to the internet or not.

ESET Smart Security is the most effective protection one can use to combat today's huge volumes of Internet and email threats. It combines ESET's award-winning NOD32® proactive antivirus and antispyware protection with a powerful yet easy-to-use two-way firewall and robust antispam technology.

Quotes from ESS:

When the premium company like Titan Industries selects ESET Smart Security, it speaks directly to the quality of our product and the high-level of our customer service" said Riyaz Sayyed, GM, ESS Software Distribution and Consulting (P) Ltd.

About Titan Industries Ltd

Titan Industries is a company that produces India's largest and best-known range of personal accessories - watches, retail watches, jewellery, sunglasses and eye wear under well known brands. Titan Industries was established in 1984 as a joint venture between the Tata group and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation.

The company manufactures over 10 million watches per annum and has a customer base of over 100 million. Today, the Titan portfolio has over 60 per cent of the domestic market share in the organized watch market. Watches are sold through exclusive 'World of Titan' showrooms and at 12,000 outlets in more than 2,500 cities in India and internationally in over 30 countries, primarily in the Middle-East and Asia Pacific. Its after-sales-service is itself a benchmarked operation with service centres and amongst the world's fastest turnaround times. It has recently launched Helios stores retailing Premium watch brands along with in-house brands and Fastrack stores retailing personal accessories for the youth. The company has a world-class design studio for designing watches and accessories.

About Prudente

Prudente was founded in year 2000 in Bangalore, India is premier business partner of ESS Software Distribution & Consulting (P) Ltd. Prudent? expertise on Information security as the core domain traverses across all layers of IT infrastructure like Servers, Network, Storage, Middleware & Applications. Having worked extensively in security domain, Prudente leverage on the skills acquired thus, to extend services and competencies in other domains of IT. Prudent? has industry affiliations with reputed organizations like NASSCOM, CERT-in and TiE. Prudente are signed partners with BSi India, SAI Global and other Certification bodies. Prudente team comprises of 75+ years of cumulative IT management experience, with ability to adapt & meet demanding requirements from cross section of the industry.

About ESS Software Distribution & Consulting (P) Ltd.

"ESS Software Distribution & Consulting Private Limited" is locally incorporated distribution company in India oriented towards promotion of the worldwide popular security software solutions of ESET Company. The company "ESS Software Distribution & Consulting Private Limited" is providing ESET Smart Security and ESET Smart Security antivirus products to the Indian market. Main goal of "ESS Software Distribution & Consulting Private Limited" is ESET products promotion in the Indian IT security market. Primary tasks consist in creation and development of the Partner Network and provision of pre-sales, technical and marketing support. Key business initiatives are focused on small and medium business segments as well as on retail as it plays an important role in brand awareness and demand generation.

The Partner Program of the distribution company "ESS Software Distribution & Consulting Private Limited" consists in educating resellers in the licensing policy of ESET products and sales rules in India and includes information about marketing and technical support provided by assigned managers.