Leading IT Security VAD to Help Arbor Further Penetrate Enterprise Market for DDoS Solutions

Wednesday, February 8th, 2015 - Dubai, UAE: StarLink, the region's trusted security-specialized "True" Value-Added-Distributor (VAD), has today announced that it has signed a Distribution agreement with Arbor Networks, the leader in DDoS Mitigation, Network Visibility and Advanced Threat Protection for service provider, cloud hosting and enterprise networks. As the largest and fastest growing IT Security distributor in the Middle East with strong on-the-ground presence across the region, StarLink will sell, install and support Arbor Networks products through its extensive network of Channel Partners to enterprise and government customers in the region.

"If you want to rapidly gain market share in the Middle East's lucrative IT security market, you need StarLink as a distributor," said Jeremy Nicholls, Arbor Networks' Vice President Global Channels & Alliances. "They have the expertise, reach, resources and relationships to help us accelerate growth and customer acquisition in the region".

Mahmoud Nimer, General Manager at StarLink added, "DDoS attacks in the region are becoming more frequent, taking down networks, tarnishing reputations and impacting businesses. Arbor has solutions that specifically address the needs of the Middle East's enterprises and service provider customers. We are excited to align Arbor's best-of-breed technology with our Channel so that Partners can deliver the situational awareness, security intelligence, incident response and forensic capabilities that customers need to detect, mitigate and analyze DDoS threats."

About Arbor Networks
Arbor Networks, Inc. helps secure the world's largest enterprise and service provider networks from DDoS attacks and advanced threats. Arbor is the world's leading provider of DDoS protection in the enterprise, carrier and mobile market segments, according to Infonetics Research. Arbor's advanced threat solutions deliver comprehensive network visibility through a combination of packet capture and NetFlow technology, enabling the rapid detection and mitigation of malware and malicious insiders. Arbor also delivers market-leading analytics for dynamic incident response, historical analysis, visualization and forensics. Arbor strives to be a "force multiplier," making network and security teams the experts. Our goal is to provide a richer picture into networks and more security context - so customers can solve problems faster and help reduce the risk to their business.

To learn more about Arbor products and services, please visit www.arbornetworks.com. Arbor's research, analysis and insight, together with data from the ATLAS® global threat intelligence system, can be found at the ATLAS Threat Portal.

About StarLink
StarLink is acclaimed as the largest and fastest growing "True" Value-added Distributor across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa regions with on-the-ground presence in 14 countries. With its innovate Security Framework, StarLink is also recognized as a "Trusted Security Advisor" to over 1000 enterprise and government customers that use one or more of StarLink's best-of-breed and market-leading technologies, sold through its Channel network of over 250 Partners. The StarLink Solution Lifecycle helps Channel Partners differentiate offerings, and assists customers to identify key risks and define priorities for addressing IT Security gaps relating to compliance and next-generation threat protection.

For more information about StarLink, please visit www.starlinkme.net

Press Contact:
Mary Aji |Director, Marketing
StarLink
T: +971 4 2794000
F: +971 4 2794001
E: mary@starlinkme.net

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