ComGuard, a Dubai based leading value added distributor for IT security products and solutions in the Middle East and North Africa region recently held special training program for its channel partners on GFI Software products in UAE and Oman.

ComGuard conducted these training programs in association with GFI Software designed specifically to help channel partners to capitalize on the fast-growing email archiving and web monitor market in the region.

Experts from both ComGuard and GFI Software provided an overview and technical training on GFI Software solutions.

Brian Azzopardi, Product Manager of GFI Software who conducts training workshops, programs for GFI across world presided over the training programs for the channel partners both in UAE and Oman to provide the in-depth knowledge about WebMonitor and GFI MailArchiver. He also highlighted the key new features of GFI MailArchiver, called 'MailInsights' an Business Intelligence (BI) functionality embedded in MailArchiver, which extracts intelligent information from the emails to enhance the productivity.

The training was attended by a large number of channel partners both in UAE and Oman. And, at the end of the training programs, ComGuard offered its successful channel partners free of cost training certification from GFI Software.

Mohammad Mobasseri, Sr. Vice President, ComGuard, said, “We believe Information is key to success, hence we decided to roll out such a unique program to train and educate our partners on GFI WebMonitor and GFI MailArchiver to enable them to win more customers, as well as deploy and configure GFI Software solutions on their own in their respective countries”.

With the overwhelming response received from its channel partners ComGuard plans to conduct similar training programs for its channel partners to Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon among others in the Middle East region.

John Spoor, Channel Manager for Middle East and Africa, GFI Software, said, “The purpose of such training workshops is to update the skills sets of channel partners and provide them with necessary knowledge that equips them to maximize the potential of GFI software solutions in the growing marketplace”.

Spectrami, the leading value added distributor in the region today announced that it has recently signed an distribution agreement with Microdasys, Inc. to distribute wide range of enterprise security solutions in the Middle East region.

There is an amazing buzz going around with the new unknown threats that are getting in organizations with encrypted and xml traffic and the adoption of Web 2.0 makes it even more complicated to manage security posture with the traditional security tool sets. With new threats new technologies are needed to manage attacks from unknown and Microdasys completes the picture in terms of protection from the new trend of attacks.

“We are extremely delighted to bring Microdasys’ portfolio to Middle East and are very confident that the pioneers in SSL and XML protection worldwide would be able to protect the local infrastructure here.” said, Anand Choudha, Managing Director, Spectrami.

The ongoing adoption of cloud computing and Web 2.0 technologies in enterprises and government agencies is adding to the security challenges that security administrators are facing today. SSL encryption, XML/SOAP, RSS feeds and Web Services will continue to grow exponentially while traditional content scanners and firewalls are incapable of inspecting these protocols and applications. Microdasys products enable the adoption and safe use of SSL encryption and XML/SOAP applications in the enterprise network.

"We are very excited to add Spectrami to our family of partners," said Oliver Ott, General Manager of Microdasys EMEA. "As the pioneers of SSL content scanning we enjoy continued high demand for our SCIP SSL Content Proxy and with the recent release of our XSG XML Security Gateway we needed a highly qualified distribution partner to assist and support our channel partners and end users in the Middle East. Spectrami has a proven track record of successfully bringing new technologies to these regions, and we're looking forward to a very successful partnership for the benefit of our customers."

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