{"id":3329,"date":"2020-10-23T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T08:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2020-10-23T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T08:15:30","slug":"czech-based-cyber-security-giant-avast-opens-office-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=3329","title":{"rendered":"Czech-based cyber security giant Avast opens office in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Czech-born cyber security solutions provider Avast Software, one of the world&#8217;s largest IT security companies with an annual turnover of over 800mln USD, has set up an office in Romania.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company established its headquarters in the eastern part of the country in Iasi, a city that has emerged as a major IT hub along with Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and country&#8217;s capital city Bucharest. Global IT companies including Amazon have chosen Iasi as their Romanian headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avast hired Alexandru Pichiu, former software developer and team leader at Continental and Comodo Romania, as country manager.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other two managers of Avast Software Romania Iasi are Marshall Philip Antony, the financial director of Avast Software, and Barton Kelby Frederick, general legal advisor at Avast.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in April 1988, Avast has over 435mn international users, 10,000 servers, and more than 1,700 employees. The company claims that it prevents 1.5bn IT attacks every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech-born cyber security solutions provider Avast Software, one of the world&#8217;s largest IT security companies with an annual turnover of over 800mln USD, has set up an office in Romania. The company established its headquarters in the eastern part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}