TAFA Partners with BlackBerry to Strengthen Cybersecurity Offering for SMBs in Philippines and ASEAN

New agreement gives more small and medium businesses access to BlackBerry’s AI-driven, prevention-first cybersecurity solutions and managed (XDR) services
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Manila, Philippines – TAFA Holdings (S) Pte Ltd, a cybersecurity consulting company based in Singapore, announced a distribution agreement with BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) for wider availability of BlackBerry® cybersecurity solutions and services for ASEAN organizations. SMBs now have access to enterprise-grade cybersecurity and round-the-clock support at a fraction of the cost, thanks to BlackBerry’s shared service model.

TAFA Holdings has been granted a license to provide Managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) Monitoring Service by Singapore’s Cybersecurity Services Regulation Office (CSRO) to ensure the highest level of trust for customers of cybersecurity services.
Under the agreement, TAFA will offer the full BlackBerry® Cyber Suite, including Cylance® Protect, Cylance® Optics and Cylance® Guard, as a 24/7 managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR) service. This partnership will help organisations protect end-points and data from malware and breaches. Cylance Guard’s XDR capability will also help to address cyber-skills shortages for businesses with lean or non-existent in-house security teams.

“As organisations across ASEAN experience heightened cyber threats, traditional signature-based solutions fail to address the severity of attacks,” said Wee Ah Kee, CEO, TAFA. “By expanding our offering with BlackBerry’s, we can further help businesses of any size improve their security posture with a prevention-first approach.”

Blackberry 2022 Threat Report showed an increasing ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and malware-as-a-service (MaaS) tools to execute high-impact attacks, with that, SMEs are now facing 11 to 13 cyberattacks per device per day. In the Philippines, SMBs make up the back bone of the economy, making cybersecurity an integral aspect as SMBs gear towards digitalization.

Graeme Pyper, Director, Channel Partner and Alliances, APAC, BlackBerry adds, “BlackBerry's eighth-generation AI engine and on-demand cybersecurity experts, make it possible for organisations to prevent threats and address IT security skills gaps to get their business running.”

TAFA is proud to partner with HAFA Asia Corporation to provide managed cybersecurity services that help businesses of all size achieve Total Security Compliance. 

For information about BlackBerry® Cyber Suite, visit here. To download a copy of the 2022 BlackBerry Threat Report , visit here.

​For more information about TAFA click here. 

Check out our article at Philippines Star here.

You can also find us on page 10-11 in the latest issue of PHILSME Magazine here.