Check Point software technologies Ltd.  the worldwide leader in securing the Internet  has announced partnership with five new reseller partners in  Nigeria including , Computer Warehouse Group,  Dimension Data , iTeco, Jetlink and Resourcery.

The partnership with leading local IT firms is expected to  strengthen Check Point’ activity and penetration into the Nigerian market and enable the partners to offer their clients Check Point’ security solutions as a part of their total solutions for networks..

“Our intention is to bring the Nigerian IT security market to the next level and to fulfill the increasing demand of sophisticated security solutions and IT infrastructure.

In order to accomplish these goals we’ve collaborated with five new experienced partners to assist reinforcing Check Point’s presence in Western Africa.

Our new partners cover all market’ sectors in Nigeria and have the ability to enhance local support and to deliver optimum customer services” said Shmuel Agi, Regional Director of the Middle East and Africa at Check Point Software Technologies.

The five partners have attained tremendous growth through strategic alliances and partnerships with world-class organizations to ensure quality of service that exceed their customer’s expectations.

“We see tremendous business prospects in the Nigerian market, presenting a significant and untapped development potential for Check Point across our product lines.

We look forward to further developing our customer base, mainly across the finance, oil and gas, telco, information communications, technology industry and governmental sectors” added Agi.

.Nir Kunik, CEO, DataGroupIT, Check Point’s exclusive distributor in Nigeria: “As Check Point’s exclusive distributor in Nigeria, we believe that our mission is to offer a total solution to the Nigerian market, from SMB to enterprise solutions.

In addition, we intend to keep investing in training both – partners and clients – as we believe that the IT security knowhow should be available locally, with minimum dependency on offshore professional services. We believe that this is the key to success in the IT security arena and we intend to bring the local knowhow and services to a new level”

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for networks, data and endpoints, unified under a single management framework.

Check Point provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology.

Today, Check Point continues to innovate with the development of the Software Blade architecture. The dynamic Software Blade architecture delivers secure, flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact security needs of any organization or environment.

Check Point customers include tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes including all Fortune 100 companies. Check Point’s award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers, spyware and identity theft.

DataGroupIT specializes in the distribution of leading-edge IT products in the African market.

Over the years, DataGroupIT has brought to this market cutting-edge technologies from world leading vendors to enable our clients to practice the best of breed solutions in the following categories: Storage, IT Security, Log Management, Document Management, Data & Application Security, Mobile Data Encryption and Biometric. DataGroupIT operates in: Nigeria, Angola, Ghana and Kenya.