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ASEAN Foundation partners with BitDefender and QCOM Group

The partnership between the ASEAN Foundation and the QCOM Group was initiated with a donation by QCOM Group of a range of BitDefender Security software products. Mr. Michael Leong, CEO of QCOM Group handed over the donation to Dr. Filemon A. Uriarte, Jr., Executive Director of the ASEAN Foundation, during the latter’s visit to the QCOM Group’s office in Singapore on 20 July 2010. The donation includes more than US$6,000 worth of BitDefender anti-virus licenses for PCs and Servers at the entire ASEAN Foundation site. QCOM Group will also provide free technical support and training on BitDefender products and free BitDefender 1 year-1 user Antivirus keys to AF ICT training participants to improve PC security and awareness. The ASEAN Foundation intends to distribute these BitDefender software products to the offices of the Permanent Representatives to ASEAN, the ASEAN embassies in Jakarta, the Friends of ASEAN, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the various partner organizations of the ASEAN Foundation. As part of this partnership, QCOM Group will also collaborate with the ASEAN Foundation to conduct workshops and trainings related to computer security and awareness with the help of BitDefender. These are all part of the wider corporate social responsibility activities of QCOM Group in the ASEAN region, as a reliable provider of top quality IT products and services. QCOM Group Pte Ltd was founded in 2000 and distributes the complete range of Quicken QuickBooks and BitDefender software products and services in Asia Pacific. Besides managing an extensive channel network in Asia, QCOM Group also offers its expertise as a Quicken products application consultant by providing assistance and consultancy to small medium enterprises in Asia to develop fully integrated end-to-end e-Business solutions together with third party partners. BitDefender, on the other hand, is the creator of one of the industry's fastest and most effective lines of internationally certified security software. More information is available from its websites http://bitdefender.qcomgroup.com/ and www.malwarecity.com.

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