Computerlinks signs distribution agreement with Sourcefire

Computerlinks has signed a distribution agreement with Sourcefire for the Australian market and is looking to expand the number of resellers it has next year.

The company set up an Australian office in May last year and is a value-added distributor of IT security technology for businesses.

It’s portfolio includes WAN optimisation, perimeter security and endpoint security, representing other vendors including Blue Coat/Packeteer, Crossbeam and Lumension.

As part of the agreement, Sourcefire will be targeting firewalling resellers, crossbeam resellers, IPS resellers and other security resellers and service providers.

According to Matthew Hales managing director COMPUTERLINKS Australia, Sourcefire represents a tremendous opportunity to resellers involved with IPS technologies and perimeter security in general, such as firewalls and web gateways.

“Sourcefire is particularly attractive to customers with previous experience with IPS systems and the challenges associated with reviewing masses of event log data,” he said.

Hales claims COMPUTERLINKS moved to new Australian headquarters in North Sydney at the start of the year for more warehousing space and training facilities, and to be closer to its customers and vendor partners.

It also opened an office in Melbourne in April for both sales and technical staff.

“We launched as a new player here last year. It had its challenges in terms of building a portfolio of products and building a relationship with resellers over here but now we have a range of technologies,” said Hales.

He said the company wants to attract both networking and security resellers and managed service providers. It currently has 50 resellers but is looking to expand next year.

“We have the technical knowledge and can support resellers in helping them to sell,” he added.