ComGuard sees emerging need among customer base for IP based intelligent physical security monitoring
Dubai, UAE, October 15, 2003. ComGuard, the region’s leading IT security provider, today announced it extended its distribution partnership with NetBotz, the leading global provider of IP-based intelligent physical security solutions. NetBotz, which has more than 2,200 customers worldwide, provides physical security solutions that safeguard critical assets, places and people from physical threats such as hostile human acts and harmful environmental and ambient factors. NetBotz does this by providing early warning of threatening conditions or events that can jeopardize these investments.
According to Herbert Kamensky, CEO of ComGuard, two converging trends are behind the growing need for physical threat monitoring of storage assets. "Data centers are housing greater amounts of equipment while, at the same time IT infrastructure is becoming distributed throughout an organization. This means IT assets are becoming increasingly vulnerable to physical threats from hostile human acts to harmful environmental factors such as extreme temperatures. Partnering with NetBotz enables our resellers to offer our customers affordable and reliable physical-threat security of their IT assets."
With the value-added services and our engineers’ technical service capabilities for NetBotz appliances, our resellers and customers will benefit from the local engineer resources for NetBotz. We’re working with a broad spectrum of leading partners in the Middle East to build and broaden the NetBotz channel to the region,” concluded Kamensky.
"NetBotz has all the key ingredients for continuing to sustain the tremendous growth rate it has achieved to date," said Daniel Nufer, Sales/Marketing Director of ComGuard. "Its experienced management team has turned the company into a leader in the physical security segment. It has done this by combining operational expertise, the ability to execute on its technology vision, and organizational leadership that has created a customer-focused company. All these factors lead us to believe the company will succeed in its fast growth and market penetration in the Middle East,’’ said Nufer.
“Teaming up with organization such as ComGuard greatly enhances our ability to reach both the reseller and the end-user,” said Steven Brown, NetBotz Regional Manager for the Middle East and Africa. “We are excited about bringing this product into the region and look forward with great anticipation to rolling it out during the next coming months.”
Recently, NetBotz announced the WallBotz 500, the newest addition to its award-winning line of "sentry" appliances, an emerging new breed of appliances that protects an organization's assets from physical threats. Some of the key features of the WallBotz 500 includes are secure surveillance-grade camera, modular architecture that features snap off sensors for greater threat protection flexibility, secure SSL transmission of sensitive security data and wireless connectivity. In addition, the modular design makes it easy for NetBotz to broaden its threat protection capabilities by partnering with developers of "homeland security" sensors, such as those that detect nuclear, biological and/or chemical agents.
The company also announced the latest version of NetBotz Central 2.0, which gives users a centralized way to deploy, configure and manage hundreds of appliances throughout an organization. Redundancy, greater storage of physical threat data, and "hot standby capability" mean users have fail-safe, fast and secure access to their enterprise-wide physical security information.
-Ends-
About NetBotz (www.netbotz.com):
NetBotz, Inc. is the leading global provider of IP-based physical security solutions. More than 2,200 organizations worldwide use NetBotz solutions, which prevent potentially catastrophic losses by providing early warning of conditions that threaten people, places and assets. NetBotz markets its solution through a network of distributors, solution partners and accredited resellers around the world. Based in Austin, Texas, NetBotz is a privately held company with funding from Hill Partners, CenterPoint Ventures, SSM Venture Partners, Osprey Ventures, QuestMark Partners and Austin Ventures. NetBotz is the winner of the Deloitte & Touche Rising Star award, the Best in Show Award in the Network Management Category at NetWorld+Interop and a KPMG Start-up Standout Award.
About ComGuard:
ComGuard FZ – LLC is a professional IT security solutions provider offering technology-driven security solutions to Middle East businesses and government organizations with cost-effective, cutting-edge solutions for securing the customers business. ComGuard security services and solutions are independent of any and all ties to industry products, which allow us to use the very best combination of tools and techniques to design and deliver our solutions to the customers.
About Dubai Internet City:
Dubai Internet City (DIC) provides a Knowledge Economy Ecosystem designed to support the business development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies. It is the Middle East’s biggest IT infrastructure, built inside a free trade zone and has the largest commercial Internet Protocol Telephony system in the world. DIC is a strategic base for companies targeting emerging markets in a vast region extending from the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent, and Africa to the CIS countries, covering 1.8 billion people with a GDP of $1.5 trillion. In line with Dubai's liberal economic policies and regulations, DIC offers foreign companies 100% tax-free ownership, 100% repatriation of capital and profits, no currency restrictions, easy registration and licensing, stringent cyber regulations and protection of intellectual property.
Within a short span of time, a dynamic international community of ICT companies has established itself in DIC. The global ICT giants are all here: Microsoft, Oracle, HP, IBM, Compaq, Dell, Siemens, Canon, Logica, Sony Ericsson, Schlumberger and Cisco, to name just a few. These companies represent a formidable community of over 14,000 knowledge workers. The cluster of ICT companies in DIC comprise of Software Development, Business Services, Web Based & e-Commerce, Consultancy, Education & Training, Sales & Marketing and Back Office Operations. DIC provides a scalable state-of-the-art technology platform to companies looking to provide cost effective Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services such as call center operations.
ComGuard FZ - LLC
IT security solutions
Tel: (971 4) 391 64 00
Fax: (971 4) 391 68 67
E-mail: marketing@comguard.net
Attn: Wafa Mahdi / Daniel Nufer
NetBotz, Inc
Tel: (971 4) 391 1282
Fax: (971 4) 391 8756
E-mail: farah@netbotz.com
© Press Release 2003
