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AlgoSec and Leading Japanese Distributor CreDist Launch Strategic Channel Partnership
Security Risk Management Leader's Firewall Audit Solutions Penetrate Japanese Enterprise Market
| Source: AlgoSec
RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - June 25, 2007) - AlgoSec, Inc. and CreDist, Inc., a leading
Japanese reseller of enterprise-class software solutions, today announced a
strategic channel partnership to distribute AlgoSec's leading firewall
security risk management solutions. This alliance enables CreDist's
enterprise clients to use the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer™ (AFA) to
receive unparalleled visibility, analysis and intelligence into their
firewall configurations to effectively audit, manage and mitigate their
exposure to risk.
Enterprises worldwide rely on AlgoSec's solutions to provide firewall and
router security compliance, audit, change management, risk management and
policy optimization.
"We are excited to work with AlgoSec to deliver its market-leading firewall
management solutions to enterprises across Japan," said Hiroshi Tomita ,
CEO of CreDist. "AlgoSec's ability to provide key members of the
architecture and security teams with unprecedented visibility into their
firewall configurations without having to access their production network
is invaluable. Our clients have been asking for a proactive solution that
allows them to audit firewall configurations across multiple vendors.
AlgoSec products not only meet their needs but exceed them."
"We are delighted about our partnership with CreDist and look forward to
maximizing our reach in Japan through CreDist's established customer base
and innovative software distribution model," said Yuval Baron, AlgoSec CEO.
"Our alliance enhances our exposure to the Japanese market while providing
enterprises with the local support they need to proactively manage their
firewalls."
With the AFA security and IT team members can query firewall configurations
and view policies from any web browser. AFA is non-intrusive, easy to
deploy and use and supports the major platforms in the enterprise market:
Check Point (FireWall-1 and Provider-1 on Solaris, Nokia, SecurePlatform,
Alteon, Crossbeam and Windows), Cisco firewalls (PIX, ASA and FWSM), Cisco
routers and Juniper Netscreen.
About CreDist
CreDist Inc. was established in December 2000 to "create new distributions
of software products for vendors and users." Backed by two of Japan's
leading companies, Software Research Associates, Inc. (SRA) and Mitsui
Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd (MKI), CreDist provides a novel type of ASP
service named ILD (Internet License Distribution) where the application
programs are located at client machines and CreDist distributes/controls
their licenses so that, different from other ASPs, the software rental is
enabled without overloading the ASP server. For more information, see
www.credist.co.jp
About AlgoSec
AlgoSec provides advanced firewall risk management solutions that deliver
unparalleled visibility, analysis and intelligence into organizations'
firewall policies. Global 2000 organizations around the world rely on
AlgoSec's market leading AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) solution to ensure
firewall and router security compliance, audit, change management, risk
management and policy optimization.
AlgoSec Inc, Algorithmic Security, AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer and the
AlgoSec logo are trademarks of Algorithmic Security Inc. All other
trademarks are property of their respective holders. For more information
about AlgoSec visit: www.algosec.com