Dubai, 27th October 2011 - StarLink and Safenet announce today the signature of a partnership agreement appointing StarLink to distribute SafeNet's complete range of data protection solutions in the Middle East. The contract was signed by Nidal Othman Marketing and Sales Manager at StarLink and  Sebastien Pavie', Regional Sales Director MEA at SafeNet.

StarLink is the leading IT Security Solutions provider in the Middle East with an experienced management team that brings decades of business, technical, and project management expertise to the deployment, and support of market-leading products.

SafeNet is a global leader in information security, and employs its encryption technology to protect data when they are moving through networks, used, shared or in storage, with the broadest range of security solutions in the world. With products certified to the highest standards, SafeNet offers both software and hardware systems to organisations' increasing security challenges, helping them to protect critical business data, classified government information, communication, financial transactions, digital identities, high-value software.

Nidal Othman Sales and Marketing Manager at StarLink said, "Partnering with SafeNet offers a promising future for both companies and customers. We are extremely proud to grow relationship with SafeNet".

"We are delighted to have Starlink as a new Distributor for our Enterprise portfolio in the Middle-East region" comments SafeNet MEA Sales Director Sebastien Pavie " and we are confident this new partnership will significantly contribute to expand our regional market reach. Their expertise and professionalism is renowned in the regional security community and will further raise the profile of our leading data protection offering".

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About SafeNet:
Founded in 1983, SafeNet, Inc. is one of the largest information security companies in the world, and is trusted to protect the most sensitive data of market-leading organizations around the globe.  SafeNet's data-centric approach focuses on the protection of high value information throughout its lifecycle, from the data center to the cloud.  More than 25,000 customers across commercial enterprises and government agencies trust SafeNet to protect and control access to sensitive data, manage risk, ensure compliance, and secure virtual and cloud environments.

About StarLink:
StarLink the leading IT compliance driven solutions provider was founded in 2005 and is based in Dubai. StarLink is recognized as "Trusted Security Advisor" and market leader in automating the entire IT compliance auditing process to help our customers to reduce IT Risk for enterprises in Financial Institutes, Telcos and Governments, helps organizations achieve and sustain compliance and optimally manage risks through full policy, procedure and controls lifecycle management.

Press contacts:
StarLink:
Jay Menorca, Regional Channel Marketing Manager at StarLink
E-mail: jay@starlinkme.net
Tel: 971 4 2661203 / Mobile: 971 50 3226839

SafeNet:
Elaine D'Souza, Active PR
E-mail: elaine@activepr.biz 
Tel: 971 4 3643085 / Mobile: 971 50 585 5318

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