COMPUTERLINKS aims for the Skybox

Specialist security distributor COMPUTERLINKS has bolstered its vendor portfolio via a deal with  US security company Skybox.

“Skybox is unique technology and presents a great opportunity for our channel partners,” said COMPUTERLINKS regional director Matin Kaddour.

“The company is a leader in its space, it looks and at rectifies security issues in a unique way and is implemented at the network layer,” he added.

COMPUTERLINKS has around 120 channel partners in Australia, and relationships with blue-chip security vendors, including IBM Security, Checkpoint, Sourcefire and Resilience.

After a rocky start in the local market in 2007, the Munich-headquartered COMPUTERLINKS put a broom through the local operation in 2010, and has since focused on aggressively expanding its product portfolio.

“We are always on the lookout for complementary technologies,” Kaddour said. “Technologies that adds value to partners looking to differentiate themselves.”

The company has gone from six to eighteen staff in the last twelve months, and has both local engineering talent for its channel partners to access, as well as international engineering teams, should they be required.

“We will always have a security focus,” Kaddour said. “There is so much growth yet to happen in the security market, I think we are just at the beginning of where security is going to go.”

COMPUTERLINKS does not have an over-arching partner program, however Kaddour said partners can access the Skybox program, which offers incentives and rebates.