Lumension Security has announced that it has appointed Gateway NINtec, an IT Security Solutions provider, as its sub distributor in India. As part of the partnership, Gateway NINtec will facilitate Lumension’s Sanctuary range of products in end-point security, including, Device and Application Control solutions.

Speaking about the partnership, Shamshad Ahmed, Regional Director, India and SAARC, Lumension Security said, "We have outlined plans to enhance our channel network in the country. The fast growing Indian security market has further strengthened our efforts. We were keen to partner with a firm that brings solid domain knowledge to the partnership coupled with an all India reach. In Gateway NINtec we have found the right partner. Given their established capability in end point security products, sound understanding of Lumension, national reach and highest standards in customer support, we are confident of substantially increasing our market share and presence."

"Lumension Security is the industry’s only IT security company to deliver holistic unified protection and control over enterprise endpoints. We are proud to be associated with Lumension Security and are confident of making great strides with their best of breed Sanctuary range of end point security solutions in the Indian market," said Deepak Parmar, Vice President – Product Division, Gateway NINtec Pvt. Ltd.
 
"Our focus has been to bring simple yet comprehensive and effective security solutions through our product alliances to our valued clients and because of that we have been preferred partners for wide range of customers from various industry verticals including some of the prestigious corporate biggies like Hindustan Unilever, HSBC Bank, AVIVA, HCL, Reliance Capital, TVS Motors and many more. Our growing nationwide network of resellers and strong technical support infrastructure will help Lumension Security get strong inroads even into the regional markets of India.  Lumension Security is an important partner for us and we expect Lumension to contribute  to 20% of our business by next year. By March 2009, we see this figure growing to 35%.  In effect, we will further strengthen our position as leaders in endpoint security with Lumension’s path breaking technology," Parmar added.