Polaris Office, Polaris AI Handy Join Forces to Target Enterprise Security Market

Polaris Office is joining forces with its affiliate Polaris AI Handy to target the enterprise security market. The two companies will jointly launch a free security assessment campaign for companies' internal authentication infrastructure and plan to expand their security business by leveraging their existing networks of public-sector and corporate clients.

The campaign is designed to proactively identify potential security risks in companies' internal authentication infrastructure and recommend ways to address them. The companies aim to combine Polaris Office's global security solutions capabilities with Polaris AI Handy's experience in groupware and electronic approval systems, as well as its client network, to provide security services tailored to each company's environment.

Companies that operate Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) are eligible for the assessment. Using "PingCastle," an assessment solution from Netwrix, a global data and identity security company, the companies will analyze potential risks involving accounts, access permissions, and security settings. They also plan to recommend improvement priorities tailored to each company based on the assessment results.

As companies increasingly adopt digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI), the importance of managing internal accounts and access permissions is also growing. Authentication infrastructure that connects many employees and business systems can allow the impact of a security incident to spread across an entire company, making proactive assessments and systematic management essential.

The two companies plan to use their existing client networks as new sales channels for their security business through the campaign. Polaris Office will supply security solutions and provide technical support through its partnership with Netwrix, while Polaris AI Handy will identify new demand based on its experience building and operating groupware and electronic approval systems, primarily for public-sector organizations.

They will also pursue cross-selling by offering existing groupware clients additional security services, including account and access-permission management and data protection. Polaris AI Handy plans to expand beyond its business-to-government (B2G) operations, which have focused on public-sector organizations, into the business-to-business (B2B) market serving private companies.

The companies also plan to expand their cloud-based security business. By combining the Azure and Microsoft 365 implementation and operations capabilities of their affiliate Polaris Cloud, a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), they aim to address security needs not only in on-premises environments but also in hybrid environments that use both cloud services and internal systems.

After the free assessment, Polaris Office plans to offer companies that need further security management Netwrix solutions for account and access-permission management, data loss prevention, and threat detection. The company plans to expand beyond one-off assessments and solution supply into building, continuously managing, and operating security environments, while developing a security services business that generates recurring revenue.

A Polaris Office representative said, "This campaign is intended to help companies not only identify security risks but also take concrete steps to address them. By combining Polaris AI Handy's public-sector and corporate client base with Polaris Cloud's cloud business capabilities, we will strengthen the group's security business and pursue new opportunities in the B2B and B2G markets."

Meanwhile, Polaris Group is integrating AI and security technologies into business software, including document, groupware, and electronic approval systems, with Polaris Office and Polaris AI Handy at the center. The group is also pursuing a vertical AI strategy that links Polaris Cloud's cloud infrastructure capabilities with Polaris AI's physical AI business and the manufacturing and pharmaceutical data and field experience of Polaris Sewon and Polaris AI Pharma.

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