COMPUTERLINKS and Optenet Team Enter into Distribution Partnership

Optenet, a global IT security company providing high-performance security to service providers and large enterprises worldwide, has reportedly entered into a distribution partnership with COMPUTERLINKS, a global distributor of IT security and Internet technology solutions, to deliver a comprehensive channel partner program worldwide.

 

COMPUTERLINKS officials said that as part of the agreement, the company will offer Optenet’s security solutions to its channel partners and enterprise customers.

 

Optenet’s solutions include web filtering, anti-spam, anti-virus, e-mail and web security as a fully integrated and comprehensive suite of high-performance security services designed to dynamically and proactively protect against the latest and aggressive Web 2.0 threats.

 

“Our partnership with COMPUTERLINKS is important to our channel strategy to meet demand in key markets around the globe,” said Francisco Abreu Martin, president and CEO, Optenet, in a statement.

 

Martin said that COMPUTERLINKS is helping the company to reach more security-focused resellers and deliver a higher level of service worldwide, and has already established distribution for Optenet in Europe.

 

“Optenet’s solutions deliver a unique combination of extremely high effectiveness, outstanding ease-of-use and low total-cost-of-ownership that our reseller partners and customers are looking for when selecting web and e-mail security solutions today,” said Richard Hellmeier, CTO for COMPUTERLINKS.

 

Hellmeier said that the company is pleased to be partnered with Optenet and look forward to helping expand the company’s global reach.

 

Back in June COMPUTERLINKS announced that it had agreed to distribute

HID Global’s HID on the Desktop solution in the U.K. and Ireland.

 

The announcement gives IT security resellers the means to deliver a simple, secure and convenient solution to their clients that combines physical and logical access on a single card combining three different uses – photo ID, door access and IT security.

 

The agreement with HID Global adds a further set of components to COMPUTERLINKS’ IP physical security division. HID on the Desktop combines physical and logical access on a single card that can be used as a photo ID badge, a “key” that opens doors and as a second authentication factor for logging into the IT infrastructure.

 

The convergence of these three uses provides users with a ‘chip and pin’ style approach they will be familiar with from ATMs and in their high street stores.