Hamburg, 13 May 2013 – From now on, the German IT security specialist gateprotect and the Spanish White Oak Software S.A. (WOSSA) are cooperating in providing customers on the Iberian Peninsula with innovative security solutions such as next generation firewalls. With this partnership, gateprotect is not only enhancing its presence in Southern Europe, but also assumes a pioneering role in the market as a provider of progressive technologies and security solutions.
Looking for savings potential, more and more companies are outsourcing information technology. Thanks to WOSSA services, Managed Service Providers are helping companies to reduce the cost of IT security and to ensure a transparent presentation of compliance. Thus, the necessary protection against losses of data and hacker attacks can be assured faster and at a lower cost.
“With the Command Center from gateprotect, the virtual appliances and a pay-per-use model, we are able to offer our customers flexible and platform-neutral solutions”, Javier Abad Wossa´s Sales Manager explains.
gateprotect’s CEO Dr. Peter Smeets is also pleased about the growth course in Iberia: “Thanks to the longstanding experience of WOSSA, the comprehensive synergy effects and our IT security solutions “made in Germany“, optimal data protection and IT security have become affordable also for mid-sized customers. Especially the option of individually combining the most suitable IT security package and the pertaining services is of great interest to our partners."
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http://www.gateprotect.comAbout White Oaks Software S.A.- WOSSA
WOSSA in the market has become a benchmark in regards to the provisioning of all the elements that a systems integrator needs to grow into a True Service Provider. WOSSA was created from a group of professionals in IT with a large experience in the channel, along with a team of entrepreneurs on the Security services world.
WOSSA offers different programs in such a way that everyone can make their particular proposal respecting at all times the vision of each partner, but always looking forward, from the beginning, what we have established as a new market paradigm, Recurrance.
Our goal is to provide our Partners with an extra value, based on the Recurrent Business model, this way helping their end customers. Over the years, partners keep benefiting from the WOSSA philosophy of pay-per-use on the Security Services area.
About gateprotect
gateprotect AG Germany has been a leading, globally acting provider of IT security solutions in the area of network security for more than ten years. These solutions comprise next generation firewalls with all commonly used UTM functionalities, managed security as well as VPN client systems. To minimize the risk of operator errors in highly complex security functions, gateprotect has developed the eGUI® interface concept. The patented eGUI® technology (ergonomic Graphic User Interface) and the Command Center based thereon for the configuration and administration of firewall systems for managed security service providers (MSSPs) increase the factual security in companies and allow for an efficient ongoing maintenance of the systems. Reputable companies and institutions in more than 80 countries are among the users of about 24,000 installed licenses worldwide.
Since 2010, gateprotect has been listed in the renowned “Gartner Magic Quadrant” for UTM firewall appliances. The gateprotect solutions comply with highest international standards – thus, the firewall packet filtering core of the new development has been certified according to “Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+” by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in March 2013. For the easy operability and comprehensive security of the UTM firewall solutions, gateprotect was the first German company to be honored with the Frost & Sullivan Excellence Award.
