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www.guardium.com - Guardium, the database security company, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Telindus Belgacom ICT, an international information and communication technology (ICT) integrator, as a value-added reseller for Guardium in Luxembourg and Belgium.
The partnership has already yielded a first sale to a leading European financial services company, which selected Guardium
7 to safeguard its critical customer and financial transaction information. The firm offers comprehensive international securities services, settling more than 250,000 transactions daily.
Telindus Luxembourg is a subsidiary of Telindus Belgacom ICT, a major European systems integrator with 2,800+ employees in 43 European offices and 8 offices in China and Thailand. The company is the IT services subsidiary of The Belgacom Group [Euronext: BELG], a "6 billion telecommunications provider.
"Our goal is to help our customers manage risk and IT governance more effectively through the adoption of best-of-breed technologies like real-time database security and continuous auditing," said Daniel Soriano, Sales Department Manager of Security, Audit and Governance Services of Telindus Belgacom ICT Luxembourg. "Guardium"s enterprise security platform allows customers to enhance their competitive advantage with new and innovative applications and services - without compromising security. At the same time, Guardium reduces operational costs and allows customers to comply with complex international regulations using automated and centralized controls."
"We decided to partner with Telindus Belgacom ICT because of their unmatched technology expertise and trusted advisor relationship with leading public and private sector organizations, combined with their customer-centric approach and extensive support capabilities," said Brian Flasck, Regional Director, Guardium. "With the growing awareness of the urgent need for data-level security, and the added complexity of governance regulations based on COBIT such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), as well as privacy regulations such as the EU Data Protection Directive (EUDPD), Guardium is seeing rapid adoption by firms in all geographies and industry sectors."
Forrester Research recently named Guardium "a Leader across the board," with "dominance and momentum on its side." In this comprehensive assessment, Forrester evaluated 14 large and small vendors across 116 criteria, with Guardium earning the highest overall scores for Architecture, Current Offering and Corporate Strategy ("The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007" by Noel Yuhanna, October 2007).
About Telindus Luxembourg
Based in Luxembourg since 1979, Telindus Luxembourg, a subsidiary of Telindus Belgacom ICT, delivers innovative ICT solutions to its customers and employs 355 IT experts. For more information, please visit www.telindus.lu. Telindus Belgacom ICT is the ICT pillar of the Belgacom Group and provides solutions to a variety of private and public-sector companies. Its offer includes convergence products, secure network applications and telepresence and video monitoring solutions. Bolstered by its international footholds in 12 countries, including China, and its leadership position in Belgium, France and Luxembourg, the company's main aim is to strengthen the Belgacom Group's presence in the European telecoms market.
About Guardium
Guardium, the database security company, delivers the most widely-used solution for ensuring the integrity of enterprise data and preventing information leaks from the data center.
The company"s enterprise security platform is now installed in more than 450 data centers worldwide, including 3 of the top 4 global banks; 3 of the top 5 insurers; 2 of the top 3 global retailers; one of the world?s largest PC manufacturers; a global soft drink brand; and a leading supplier of business intelligence software. The company has partnerships with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Sybase, BMC, EMC, RSA, Accenture, NetApp, McAfee, ArcSight and NEON, with Cisco as a strategic investor, and is a member of IBM's prestigious Data Governance Council and the PCI Security Standards Council.
Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a scalable enterprise platform that both protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process.
Guardium is a trademark of Guardium, Inc.
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