By Rading Biko
& Cynthia Kenyani
PRTG
targets start-ups, Small Medium-Sized and Enterprise companies and enables
firms to monitor all their systems, devices, traffic, and other applications in
their infrastructure while offering real-time alerts.
Many organizations in the EAC region have their IT
faculties monitoring the functionalities of the various tools in their
infrastructure which is not their role.
PRTG will therefore enable organizations to optimize
their It department focus on their roles through a powerful and flexible
platform.
From Left Francis Odhiambo National Chairman
– Association of Computing Practioners, National Chairman CEO Ben Obinju, Irene
Gorrissen – Business Development & Technical Sales Manager for Africa,
Paessler and Krist .
Kenya’s
leading value-added distributor of cyber security solutions -Kristel
Communication has today partnered with Paessler, a German network monitoring
software leader, to provide the networking monitoring software Paessler Router
Traffic Grapher (PRTG).
PRTG technology seeks to boost start-ups, Small
Medium-Sized and Enterprises to monitor all their systems, devices, traffic,
and other applications in their infrastructure while offering real-time alerts.
Speaking during the launch of the product in East Africa
Ben Obinju, Kristen Communication Chief Executive Officer, termed the
partnership with Paessler as timely at a period when the country has seen
increased cyber security threats targeting businesses in Kenya and the region
as a whole.
“As a cybersecurity company, we have been working to
ensure all our clients are cyber resilient by helping them mitigate the
day-to-day risks that originate from cyber threats. Other than offering
strategic advice to our clients we, therefore, deliver strategic solutions to
such threats through products such as PRTG which we are launching today.
Paessler says that the availability of software in the
market will enable local firms to optimize the usage of their infrastructure by
enabling systems managers, “stay on top of all processes with the help of the
software.
PRTG allows organizations to respond to unexpected
changes in the system by triggering real-time notifications thus decreasing the
downtime which can easily lead to losses and delays in delivering crucial
functions.
“Many organizations in the region have their IT faculties
monitoring the functionalities of the various tools in their infrastructure
which is not their role. PRTG will therefore enable organizations to optimize
their It department focus on their roles through a powerful and flexible
platform,” says Irene Gorrissen, Business Development & Technical Sales
Manager for Africa.
Further, Kristen revealed that the deployment of this
product was timely, coming at a post-pandemic period when most organizations
have automated their operations.
“We would to see the change of the wait and see a
scenario where IT practitioners would wait for some downtime to be alerted of
any problems in the system by organizations automating their monitoring
techniques,” says Simon Otieno, Chief Operations Officer Kristel.
Among the expected early adopters for the project include
the financial sector including banks, SACCOs and deposit-taking microfinance
institutions especially those operating mobile applications to extend services
to customers.
Paessler is the pioneering firm behind PRTG Network
Monitor. With over 25 years of experience in monitoring IT, OT and IoT
Networks and Infrastructure, Paessler takes the lead as The Monitoring Expert
PRTG is easy to use/ configure monitoring solution for
small medium-sized and Enterprise companies. Be it monitoring on-premise or
hosted in the cloud – Paessler has the most suitable solution for you.
Kristel is a leading value-added distributor of cyber
security solutions in East Africa representing Bitdefender, Bio-key,
Senhasegura, Horizon3.ai, Barracuda, Logsign, Shelt and Attack Simulator.
Kristel offers state-of-the-art security solutions through its partner network
[VARs, system integrators, consulting companies) to secure and protect data,
clients, servers, and networks.
