LAHORE - Paramount, the leading regional provider of products and services for securing the Information Assets of Enterprises, has floated a new business division for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Process Control security and have signed a partnership agreement with Industrial Defender, the global leader in Cyber Risk Protection(tm). According to a press release reached here on Wednesday, speaking on the occasion, Premchand Kurup, CEO of Paramount said, "Across the world in recent times, as a result the of migration of control networks from obscure to IP based, vulnerabilities in these networks are being exploited increasingly by hackers, terrorists and individuals bent on disruption and destruction. These systems face threats from computer virus proliferation as well as human error. "Paramount is proud and happy to partner with a world leader like Industrial Defender and we believe that this association will add a significant value to our customer engagements", added Mr Kurup. Mr. Matt Auer, Director-International Operations, Industrial Defender commented on the partnership, "Paramount has an illustrious list of clients and project implementations in the region, a large number of certified technical staff and is the only regional IT security company in the Middle East providing a holistic solution encompassing all three aspects - technology, process and people. We thus see Paramount as the perfect partner to help Industrial Defender achieve it's business and marketing objectives in the Middle East". A SCADA system collects data from various remote sites and makes it available in a central location for subsequent processing.