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  • Six Cybersecurity Solutions, One Big Partnership: What Tech Data and SISA Are Bringing to India

    Tech Data Partners with SISA

    Mumbai: Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX company, has partnered with global cybersecurity company SISA to expand cybersecurity capabilities across India.

    The strategic partnership will bring SISA’s cybersecurity, compliance and risk solutions to Tech Data’s partner network, helping system integrators and managed service providers address customers’ evolving security and regulatory requirements.

    The partnership comes at a time when India’s digital payments ecosystem is expanding, creating new cybersecurity challenges for organizations.

    Businesses are increasingly dealing with sophisticated cyber threats, fragmented security tools and evolving regulatory requirements.

    Through this collaboration, Tech Data and SISA aim to help partners strengthen their cybersecurity offerings and address these challenges with integrated security, compliance and privacy capabilities.

    Under the partnership, Tech Data will make SISA’s portfolio of cybersecurity solutions available to its partners across India.

    The offerings include SISA One for unified cybersecurity, ProAct for threat detection and response, Pulse for continuous compliance, Radar for sensitive data discovery, Prism for AI security and governance, and ReleaseWise for product security.

    The portfolio also includes offensive security services.

    Through this collaboration, Tech Data will help system integrators and managed service providers develop specialized cybersecurity capabilities.

    The company will provide technical training and sales enablement through its Tech Center of Excellence (Tech COE), along with specialized pre-sales support and solution integration expertise.

    The partnership will also include joint marketing and demand generation initiatives. These programs are intended to help partners engage with customers, strengthen their cybersecurity service offerings and identify new business opportunities.

    Sheela Acharekar, Advanced Solutions Leader, Tech Data Advanced (India) Private Limited, said, “India’s growing digital payments ecosystem presents an opportunity for partners to build specialized cybersecurity practices and deepen their role as trusted advisers to customers.

    “Our partnership with SISA combines payments security expertise with Tech Data’s technical and go-to-market capabilities, helping partners differentiate their offerings, address more complex customer needs and capture new growth opportunities.”

    Dharshan Shanthamurthy, Founder and CEO, SISA, highlighted the growing security challenges associated with India’s expanding payments ecosystem.

    “India’s payments ecosystem is scaling rapidly, bringing a distinct set of security challenges,” said Shanthamurthy.

    “Over the past two decades, SISA has developed deep expertise in understanding risks across the payments value chain.

    Our partnership with Tech Data brings that expertise to a broader partner ecosystem, equipping partners with the knowledge and technology to strengthen their customers’ resilience and prepare for evolving threats.”

    The Tech Data-SISA partnership is focused on bringing specialized payments security expertise and integrated cybersecurity solutions to a wider network of technology partners in India.

    Through technical enablement, pre-sales assistance, solution integration and joint go-to-market initiatives, the companies aim to help partners address increasingly complex cybersecurity and compliance requirements.

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    • Salil Urunkar

      Salil Urunkar is a senior journalist and the editorial mind behind Sahyadri Startups. With years of experience covering Pune’s entrepreneurial rise, he’s passionate about telling the real stories of founders, disruptors, and game-changers.

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