SecureData Brings Passlogix v-GO Sign-on Platform to South Africa
First Passlogix Platinum Partner on African Sub-Continent
April 21, 2008 — JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA and NEW YORK, NY; Passlogix®, Inc., developer of the market-leading v-GO® Sign-on Platform™ for enterprise single sign-on (ESSO), announced today that SecureData has become its first Platinum Partner in South Africa, The partnership equips SecureData customers with a broad suite of authentication solutions that help increase security, aid regulatory compliance, reduce authentication-related administrative overhead, and lower user productivity losses associated with the use of multiple application passwords.
SecureData is a value-added distributor of information security and risk management solutions sold through strategic partners, VARs and resellers throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands,. The firm specializes in perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity solutions for the financial services and government markets as well as the technology, retail, manufacturing and mining sectors, including 75% of the companies listed in Africa’s JSE securities exchange.
“Identity management is one of our core product focuses, so it is essential for us to have a strong enterprise single sign-on platform. Passlogix’s v-GO suite gives us a best-of-breed solution that has been OEMed by leading technology vendors and successfully implemented in organizations all over the world,” said David Naude, product manager at SecureData. “With v-GO, our channel partners have a complete toolset for providing their customers with rapid and cost-effective relief from password overload as well as , facilitating strong authentication and identity management deployments through use of the ESSO infrastructure.”
“This partnership expands our channel program into an important new geographic market and aligns us with a strong distributor that has its own channel relationships for even greater reach,” said Sean Harris, vice president of business development for Passlogix. “SecureData clearly understands the ESSO value proposition and will be an effective advocate for the v-GO platform in South Africa and surrounding countries.”
v-GO SSO (v-GO Single Sign-On), the cornerstone of the v-GO Sign-On Platform, automatically and securely signs users into enterprise applications after a single network logon without the need to remember and manage multiple users IDs and passwords. The v-GO suite also includes the market’s first on-demand ESSO client and six complementary modules, including the first ESSO-based solution for shared account access, the first tool for managing disparate strong authentication devices, and modules that extend v-GO’s single sign-on capabilities to any form of strong authentication and to kiosk environments.
The suite has sold more than 10 million licenses to enterprises around the globe, earned top rankings from industry analysts, and been successfully deployed in the largest ESSO projects in the world. Implementation requires no modification to current applications and no dedicated or proprietary hardware, permitting deployment on existing servers.
Passlogix solutions are available immediately from SecureData. For more information, visit www.securedata.co.za .
About Passlogix
Passlogix® is the developer of the v-GO Sign-On Platform, the market's most robust, scalable and easy-to-deploy enterprise single sign-on platform with successful installations in hundreds of organizations of all sizes and in all industries around the world. The company's patented intelligence-based technology eliminates lengthy and expensive implementation cycles, and provides rapid return on investment, by adapting to any existing infrastructure without the need for custom coding or replacement of legacy hardware or software. Founded in 1996, Passlogix is headquartered in New York City with sales offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore and China.
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