SecureData Africa, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings, has announced that it has been appointed as a Check Point Authorised Training Centre (ATC).
“Becoming an Authorised Training Centre has taken months of planning and a lot of investment, both financially as well as from a resources point; however, we see this as a critical component of our Check Point service offering to our channel base,” says Wayne Olsen, Product & Technology Director at SecureData Africa.
“We now have the ability to offer world-class Check Point certified training in South Africa, allowing our channel partners as well as their end-users the ability to train their engineers on the latest product offerings from Check Point, without having to incur the huge costs of sending people overseas. The Check Point training centre will form part of our existing training portfolio which comprises Trend Micro, HP TippingPoint and Websense certified training,” adds Olsen.
“Having SecureData offer certified Check Point training is advantageous to us in that it ensures that our partners and their customers have the necessary skill set to fully utilise our product offering. We believe that we have the right technology, and having more certified engineers in the country will enhance the entire Check Point experience,” says Doros Hadjizenonos, Regional Sales Manager, Check Point South Africa.
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CheckPoint
Check Point Software Technologies (www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to develop new innovations based on the Software Blade Architecture, providing customers with flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customised to meet the exact security needs of any organisation. Check Point is the only vendor to go beyond technology and define security as a business process. Check Point 3D Security uniquely combines policy, people and enforcement for greater protection of information assets and helps organisations implement a blueprint for security that aligns with business needs. Customers include tens of thousands of organisations of all sizes, including all Fortune and Global 100 companies. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers, spyware and identity theft.
SecureData
SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of information risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services.
SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, presales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.
For more information about CheckPoint, please visit www.securedata.co.za.
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