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Secure Computing Honors Leading Companies with Partners of Excellence Awards
Top distributors, alliance partners, resellers worldwide honored
SAN JOSE, CA, May 17, 2004 - Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), the experts in securing connections between people, applications, and networks™, today announced the winners of its annual Partner of Excellence Awards. Under the awards program, Secure’s top alliance partner, reseller, distribution and technology partners are recognized for their outstanding achievements in sales and marketing of Secure's products.
Partners honored this year are: Distribution Excellence: Alternative Technology and Tech Data; Distribution Excellence, International: Skynet A.S., and AKS Informationssystem AB; Alliance Partner Excellence: Blue Coat Systems; Reseller Excellence, Americas: Midwave Corporation, Flat Earth Networking, Inc., Conjungi Networks, and Northrop Grumman; Reseller Excellence, Europe/Middle East: Clearview Systems, BCC GmbH; Reseller Excellence, Asia/Pacific: TPP Group, and Net One Systems KK.
"As the recent flurry of press coverage indicates, information security is one of the most active sectors in technology today," said William R. Botti, president and COO at Alternative Technology, a leading distributor of computing solutions and security products. "So we are pleased to be a partner with a leader like Secure Computing, which offers award-winning enterprise-strength security products for our resellers.”
“We really feel like true partners with an outstanding company like Secure Computing," said Greg Flatt, President of Flat Earth Networking, a Secure Computing reseller. "Secure’s technical, marketing, and sales support has come through for us again and again, helping us to win deals every day."
Secure's partner program, PartnersFirst, is designed to help partners excel in delivering network security solutions to customers worldwide. Members have access to world-class support through Secure’s sales, marketing and technical resources. For more information about the PartnersFirst program or becoming an alliance partner, visit www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?skey=8.
Secure Computing's products have been designed to support channel sales, while providing resellers significant revenue and margin opportunities. Secure Computing's products include:
- The Secure Computing Sidewinder G2™ Security Appliance
- Web filtering products, including SmartFilter®, Sentian™, and Bess®
- SafeWord PremierAccess™, SafeWord® RemoteAccess™, and SafeWord® for Citrix®, Check Point and Nortel Networks strong authentication solutions
"We look forward every year to honoring our strongest, highest performing partners," said Chris Peterson, vice president of alliance and channel sales at Secure Computing. "It’s our way of saying thank you for sharing in our mutual success. As a team providing the best security solutions in the business, we credit all of our partners with being high-quality security technology providers. They all deserve an award, but we can only honor those with outstanding annual results."
About Secure Computing
Secure Computing (NASDAQ: SCUR) has been securing the connections between people and information for over 20 years. Specializing in delivering solutions that secure these connections, Secure Computing is uniquely qualified to be the global security solutions provider to organizations of all sizes. Our more than 11,000 global customers, supported by a worldwide network of partners, include the majority of the Dow Jones Global 50 Titans and the most prominent organizations in banking, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, public utilities, and federal and local governments. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has sales offices worldwide. For more information, see http://www.securecomputing.com.
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Editorial Contact:
David Burt
Secure Computing Corporation
206 892-1130
David_Burt@securecomputing.com
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Secure Computing’s ability to deliver security solutions to enterprise customers, and the expected benefits of such, and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are delays in product development, undetected software errors or bugs, competitive pressures, technical difficulties, changes in customer requirements, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Secure Computing’s periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.