Forescout Technologies Inc. recently expanded in the Asia Pacific region with a new headquarters in Singapore and a new India-based customer support hub, according to a press release.
“Singapore has become a huge cybersecurity hub for the region with a mature understanding of the global threat landscape,” said Dave Patnaik, regional vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), Forescout. “Our customers are looking at very specific IT spending as cyber threats in region have increased. Forescout’s platform offers tools to understand their assets and associated risks and by expanding our presence across the region and providing localized support and operations, we can support our customers during this time of immense digital transformation.”
The move is confirmed as Singapore becomes “a central hub and model of good cyber hygiene for other countries in the region. Additional countries like India and South Asia are also investing more heavily in cybersecurity as the APJ region continues to see unprecedented levels of threats in recent years,” a recent press release states.
Based in Pune, the new support center was built to better serve global customer support needs and regional operations.
The office has appointed a team of professionals to offer 24/7 support for its customers and a local specialist team to serve APJ-based organizations.
“India’s fast developing economy and country wide investment into technical training and education provides a great base for us to onboard our new team and invest in regional sales growth,” Patnaik said.
A growing number of countries in the region, such as India, have recently invested in the improvement of cyber hygiene.
“Organizations are looking for ways to increase their visibility of assets on their networks, through automation, to address the growing number of threats and support critical industries such as financial services, health care and manufacturing,” the press release explains. “Having a focused support center will enable Forescout to provide critical support to organizations across the region.”
The company’s slate of global system integrator partners includes TCS, Infosys, HCL, Wipro and L&T.
“We are seeing huge demand for our platform to provide data driven insights on threat detection and risk for organizations so they can drive better visibility and automate decision making,” said Keith Weatherford, VP, WW Channel, Forescout. “It was key that we worked with core partners that could help scale our customer support and integration program and our new GSI partners will allow us to support global and regional initiatives at scale and across industry.”