Systex Inks Distribution Agreement with Sourcefire to Include Enterprise Threat Management solutions

July 5, 2009 - PRLog -- (Singapore,) SYSTEX, the Taiwan-based leading regional IT service provider and
Open source innovator and Snort® creator, Sourcefire, today announced a partnership, to
distribute Sourcefire’s Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solutions.
“With a mission to be the leading IT service provider in Asia, SYSTEX is always ahead of the game bringing to market world-class products and solutions offerings. Headquartered out of Taiwan, Systex has over 38 offices throughout the Asia Pacific regions and local presences in 8 countries (China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia).

“This strategic alliance will reinforce our ‘Best of Breed’ security solutions and services to help our customers manage and mitigate digital security risks, which is prevalent and inevitable in doing business today. SYSTEX will continue to introduce more trusted security services and solutions to the market,” said Richard Tang, Vice President of SYSTEX.

Lawrence Ang, Regional Sales Director (Asia) Sourcefire Inc says, “Singapore is a booming market with rapid growth in information security sector having matured understanding on the importance of information security and the risk of its absence. With constantly emerging threats, stringent security solutions must be in place in every industry. And this is exemplified with our collaboration with SYSTEX, the strong IT service provider in Asia with rich domain knowledge, will enable Soucefire to leverage the distributor's incumbent vendor relationships to deliver scalable, and service opportunities whilst expand our business coverage in this market.”

About Systex
Founded in 1997, SYSTEX Corporation (TSE ID: 6214) is the No.1 Taiwan-based IT services provider in the Asia-Pacific region with 2,800 employees and 48 branch offices in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia and is working toward the goal of being “a leading IT services provider of great efficiency in the Asia-Pacific”. In 2008, SYSTEX’s consolidated revenue reached US$ 420 million. Systex processes extensive domain knowledge of various vertical industries, which help to deliver innovative applications of IT strategies thereby, giving customers a competitive edge with world-class project management capabilities and rich IT infrastructure implementation expertise. Systex is also a value added distributor and reseller for world class solutions including Motorola
AirDefense, BMC Software, CA, Check Point, Cisco, EMC, HP Software, IBM, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Symantec, Websense and others. For more information, please visit www.systex.com.tw/english

About Sourcefire
Sourcefire, Inc. , Snort creator and open source innovator, is a world leader in Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solutions. Sourcefire is transforming the way Global 2000 organizations and government agencies manage and minimize network security risks with its 3D Approach - Discover, Determine, Defend - to securing real networks. This ETM approach equips customers with an efficient and effective layered security defense - protecting network assets before, during and after an attack. The names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and network security intelligence. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit  www.sourcefire.com .

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Systex offers a unique combination of ‘Best of Breed’ solutions, services, and education throughout the Asia Pacific region to help customers mitigate and manage the digital security risks inherent in doing business today.