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The company will start offering instructor-led courses and training on Websense's product line to end-users and resellers, with immediate effect.
The courses will be led by Hein Mulder, who has become a Websense Certified Instructor. Courses on offer include the Websense Certified Engineer - Web Security Course, a three-day course that guides participants through installation, configuration, administration and support of the Websense filtering software (Websense Enterprise and Websense Web Security Suite).
The courses give participants experience of the requirements and recommendations for Websense product deployment through tuition, instructor-led demos, hands-on lab exercises, videos and tutorials. The training also arms participants with knowledge of core and secondary component functionality, including remote filtering, delegated and remote administration, reporting and troubleshooting via internal and third-party diagnostic processes.
Donovan Mooney, Product Manager for South Africa, Websense, commented: "With the recent acquisition of SurfControl, it is imperative that resellers gain the technical skills that will enable them to sell a broad range of content protection solutions, including Web and e-mail security. These skills will put the reseller in good stead for the new Websense channel partnership programme that will be launched in South Africa in late January 2008."
Websense products increase employee Internet productivity and secure organisations from emerging Internet threats by providing proactive security components that complement traditional security solutions. The company's products deliver flexible, integrated policy enforcement at the Internet gateway, on the network and at the desktop.
Says Terence Delaney, Services Director at SecureData Security: "We are proud to join Websense's global network of Authorised Training Partners and will be offering the same quality of training to our resellers and their customers as they would enjoy anywhere else in the world.
"These courses include hands-on tasks and real-world scenarios that give delegates valuable practical experience. The training programmes that we will offer will ensure resellers and end-users are able to make the most of their investments into Websense software."
SecureData
SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: Business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services. SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, applications, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.
Websense
Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) protects more than 42 million employees from external and internal computer security threats. Using a combination of pre-emptive ThreatSeeker malicious content identification and categorisation technology and information leak prevention technology, Websense helps make computing safe and productive. Distributed through its global network of channel partners, Websense software helps organisations block malicious code, prevent the loss of confidential information and manage Internet and wireless access. For more information, visit www.websense.com.