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AFC Ajax names Acronis as its official cyber
protection partner
Acronis, a global leader in cyber
protection, and AFC Ajax, a renowned
Dutch professional football club, have signed
a multi-year partnership agreement. As
AFC Ajax’s official cyber protection partner,
Acronis will play a visible and tangible
role at Ajax Academy ‘De Toekomst’ (The
Future) and the Johan Cruijff Arena. Acronis
will be providing AFC Ajax with the latest
cyber protection solutions to optimise data
workflow, helping the team improve its
performance both on and off the pitch.
Menno Geelen, Commercial Director at
AFC Ajax, said: “Acronis is a global market
leader and a technology company that
will contribute technology and content to
support our growth ambition. We are also
going to use its cyber protection solutions
and Artificial Intelligence expertise at our
training centre, De Toekomst, and see it
prominently as a new shirt partner for the
Ajax youth. A partner of which we can
therefore say with complete dedication:
for the future.”
Edwin van der Sar, Managing Director at
AFC Ajax, added: “Data and innovation are
becoming more and more important for us
as a football club and as an organisation.
Privacy and data security are therefore just as
crucial. With Acronis, we have a reliable and
knowledgeable partner that stores, makes
accessible and secures our data. Acronis
will do this at De Toekomst – the cradle of
our club where a lot of data is collected and
processed – but also in the Johan Cruijff
Arena and in our football-related and business
activities elsewhere in the world.”
Alperia selects Kaspersky to protect its
power grid’s remote-control systems
Energy provider, Alperia, has chosen
Kaspersky to protect its power plants’
remote-control systems and distribution
network that supply electricity to 280,000
users in South Tyrol, Italy. The choice to
implement Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity
for Nodes was dictated by the need to have
a dedicated solution for the OT environment
that grants maximum protection, without the
risk of machines essential to the supply of
services being interrupted. Today, Kaspersky
protects 40 Alperia servers.
Alperia, a South Tyrol company established
in 2016 following the merger of two major
local electrical utilities, currently distributes
electrical energy and gas to 280,000 users –
operating 34 hydro-electrical power plants,
six district heating plants, over 8,600 km of
grid and 700 charging stations.
After careful analysis of the few solutions
available on the market, specifically dedicated
to industrial environments, Alperia has chosen
Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity (KICS).
This solution is especially developed to protect
the different levels of industrial infrastructures,
including SCADA, DCS, PLC, engineering
stations and network connections. The
solution has a distinctive feature as it
implements a holistic approach to grant
cybersecurity for companies and critical
infrastructures alike. Thanks to its versatility
and flexibility, this solution can be configured
based on an organisation’s particular needs,
meaning it can fit the requirements of a
specific ICS environment.
This approach not only provides protection
for industrial endpoints, but also makes
use of passive monitoring technologies to
identify anomalies and detect any possible
network intrusion.
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