Interwork Technologies Boosts Mid-Market and Enterprise UTM Security Opportunity for Channel Partners by Forging Alliance with WatchGuard

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We are very pleased to team with a market leader in the growing UTM market

(PRWEB) November 17, 2009

The security threat landscape is changing dramatically, quickly. Companies are always looking for and can benefit from easy-to-use security solutions that not only offer advanced firewall technology but VPN, Web, and messaging security. Yet it can be challenging for companies to find comprehensive security solutions that meet their rigorous requirements—all from a single vendor.

Interwork Technologies, a leading, value-added distributor is excited to announce its alliance with WatchGuard, a market leader in providing affordable, easy-to-manage network security solutions. WatchGuard’s recent acquisition of BorderWare Technologies—provider of innovative e-mail, messaging, content, and Web security solutions—expands WatchGuard’s reach beyond the traditional UTM market and strengthens Interwork’s portfolio of leading security solutions.

“We are very pleased to team with a market leader in the growing UTM market,” says Ken Lewis, VP Sales and Marketing for Interwork. “With its acquisition of BorderWare, WatchGuard represents an excellent opportunity for our partners to offer an extensive family of unified security solutions to their SMB, mid-market, and enterprise clients.”

A long-term distributor of BorderWare Technologies prior to acquisition, Interwork is well positioned to work with WatchGuard to introduce the company’s product set to BorderWare partners. Interwork plans to recruit WatchGuard resellers and develop mid-market and enterprise business throughout the U.S. and Canada. As a recognizable market leader with leading technologies, WatchGuard is a dominant player in the SMB sector,. Interwork’s relationship with WatchGuard provides resellers with an opportunity to expand their scope of clients. Plus, the Interwork-WatchGuard alliance enables existing BorderWare partners to offer a larger family of products as well as advanced security features to provide an even stronger choice of effective security solutions.

”WatchGuard is pleased to be working with Interwork Technologies in bringing innovative security solutions to a broad base of channel partners and business environments,” said Mark Romano, Director of Global Field Marketing. “The acquisition of BorderWare is very exciting, as it marks a substantial opportunity for our partners to provide a new set of holistic and comprehensive security solutions to protect their customers’ networks, applications and data.”

About Interwork Technologies Inc.
Interwork Technologies is a privately owned, investor-backed company with offices in New York, Colorado, and Ontario, Canada. Established in 1991, Interwork evolved from a solution provider into a value-added distributor specializing in information security, voice, and IT management solutions. Interwork has a growing partner network of 4,000 VARs and solution providers, and is known for being a specialty advisor and expert in emerging technologies. For more information, visit http://www.interwork.com.

About WatchGuard
Since 1996, WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of network security solutions, providing mission-critical security to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances and WatchGuard SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network security, unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. To learn more, visit http://www.watchguard.com.

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