Positive Technologies, a pioneer of the IT security industry, has announced the appointment of the Italian distributor Itway VAD, a market leader providing IT and security solutions to its customers in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, Turkey, Middle East and Africa.

Itway will distribute Positive Technologies range of software products to its customers who are typically ‘systems integrators’ and ‘value added resellers’ including its flagship vulnerability management solution, MaxPatrol™, and its Application Security suite comprising of PT Application Firewall™, identified as visionary in Gartner’s Web Application Firewall magic quadrant, and PT Application Inspector™, a security testing tool.

“We are glad to have added Itway as a Value Added Distributor with its wide reach of Channel Partners across Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece”, says Massimo Romagnoli, Country Manager of Positive Technologies Italy. “Itway’s highly skilled staff will allow us to penetrate regional markets while assuring high quality implementations for our customers.”

“We are very pleased to add Positive Technologies to the brands we distribute in our geographical markets”, commented Cesare Valenti, VP Executive Itway VAD. “At this time of explosive growth of mobility, BYOD and new technological paradigms such as the Internet of Things, managing security and assessing threats is of strategic importance. Thanks to Positive Technologies’ offering, our VARs, System Integrators, and their customers in turn, can count on technologies and services that protect them from network intrusions, and data and information loss”.

ITWAY

Founded in Ravenna on July 4, 1996, listed on Borsa Italiana since July 4, 2001 (AllStar segment), and Itway SpA today heads a Group that operates in the Information Technology sector by planning, producing and distributing of e-business solutions. The Itway Group operates as Value Added Distributor (VAD) of software technologies for e-business in Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Middle East and North Africa, and is a market leader. The clients of Itway VAD are “system integrators” and “value added resellers”, who sell value added products, solutions and services to end users companies of all sizes.

Among the brands Itway distributes are: Acronis, Array Networks, Back Box, Blue Coat, Check Point, Extreme Networks, Ipswitch, Kaspersky, Kemp, Lenovo, Micro Focus, Panda Security, Parallels, Positive Technologies, Scalix, Red Hat, Scalix, Solarwinds, Spamina, Symantec, Trend Micro, Vidyo, VMware.