OREANDA-NEWS. CROC has established partnership with Above Security, a Canadian-based global IT security service provider.

"There are no cloud solutions associated with Managed Security Services (MSS) in the Russian market at the present time. Our cooperation with Above Security, a leader in North America and Europe, will enable us to be among the first companies in Russia to offer customers a range of 24/7 security services, using unique experience and competence of our partner and our own specialists," said Mikhail Bashlykov, Head of Information Security, CROC.

The Managed Security Services model assumes provision of cloud-based security services, including security event monitoring and analysis, incident identification, vulnerability scans, enterprise penetration tests and intrusion prevention services. With these services, customers can optimize their operational expenses.

“Above Security's partnership approach and business development strategy are in line with CROC's strategic objectives and we take great pride in this cooperation”, says Ray Chehata, Above Security's President and CEO. “Together with CROC, we look forward to working in such a way as to ensure that the Russian market is well-protected against information risk and the increasing numbers of IT-related threats”.

Above Security delivers customized services for monitoring and protecting the most critical and sensitive IT assets in our clients' infrastructures 24/7. Founded in 1999, Above Security caters to small and medium size businesses as well as Fortune 500 companies in important, highly-regulated industries - such as financial services and government - where the need to process or store considerable quantities of confidential data is paramount.

CROC is the number one IT infrastructure creation company in Russia (IDC reports, 2002-2013). CROC is the 5th largest IT company in Russia (RIA Rating, 2013), the 3rd largest consulting business (Expert Rating Agency, 2013), and one of Russia's top 200 private companies (Forbes ranking, 2013).