Kaspersky, the global security and digital privacy company, today announces its partnership with the premiere cricket team Mumbai Indians (MI) as the squad’s Official Cyber Security Partner for 2024. Mumbai Indians, a 5-time champion of India’s annual cricket league, is known to be one of the most popular, successful, and valuable cricket teams across the world.
This exclusive partnership between Kaspersky and Mumbai Indians aims to increase awareness to help Indian users, at every level, to protect their systems, data and privacy from online attacks.
“Mumbai Indians (MI) is a leading team in our premiere local league in India, and it is an honour for Kaspersky to be the team’s Official Cyber Security Partner this season. We see a synergy between MI’s push as a team that focuses on performance with passion, and Kaspersky’s vision of delivering performance, control, and protection to its clients across the globe. We offer award-winning cybersecurity solutions to help our customers pre-empt and fight cyberthreats and attacks. We will leverage this exclusive partnership with MI to bring interesting end consumer offers and channel incentives,” says Purshottam Bhatia, Head of Consumer Business for South Asia at Kaspersky.
As the Official Cybersecurity Partner of Mumbai Indians, Kaspersky will offer to the team its home, small business and large enterprise customers comprehensive security and Cyber Immunity solutions meant to protect their systems and improve their productivity and performance.
The Mumbai Indians spokesperson said, “We're excited to partner with Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity leader, as our Official Cybersecurity Partner this season. We look forward to working with them to educate and engage with our MI Paltan across the world on protecting their digital privacy and on evolving cyber threats via smart and intelligent engagement opportunities.”
Kaspersky’s customers can also enjoy special incentives and offers at planned brand events and campaigns related to this important partnership. In addition, the global cybersecurity company’s business partners, customers and users stand to win match tickets, VVIP passes, autographed bats and autographed playing shirts of the Mumbai Indians Team.
