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Pulse Secure and Inforte Bilişim signs distribution agreement to
accelerate channel engagement across Turkey
Pulse Secure, a leading provider of
software-defined Secure Access
solutions, has announced a new
distribution partnership with Inforte to grow
and better support its channel community
across Turkey, and to meet accelerating
demand for Zero Trust access security.
Inforte is a value-added distributor
specialising in the new generation of
information security solutions. Inforte
provides innovative services to support
its community of over 100 partners with
pre-sales and post-sales services, logistics,
marketing, demand generation and product
training, through its team of experts based
in Istanbul and Ankara.
Inforte will offer the integrated portfolio
of Pulse Secure solutions, including virtual
private network (VPN), software-defined
perimeter (SDP), network access control
(NAC), and virtual application delivery
controllers (vADC). The agreement will
include Pulse Secure’s Zero Trust-based
Access Suite which delivers protected
connectivity, operational intelligence and
threat response across mobile, network and
cloud environments.
IT spending on hardware, software
and related services in Turkey reached
US$27.5 billion in 2018 according to
TÜBİSAD, a Turkish ICT industry group.
The cybersecurity segment is expected to
grow as corporate and government ICT
security systems still need to attract
significant funding.
Network security against attackers
and viruses, email and web security,
cyber governance, identity and certificate
governance, mobile security, system
security, data and application security are
the top priorities in the market.
Güngör Gündoğdu, Managing Director
for Inforte, said: “Turkey is one of the fastest
growing countries in the region and has an
ICT community that is embracing innovative
new technology to support major public and
private sector projects.
“This new agreement with Pulse Secure
will bring the most complete end-to-end
secure access portfolio to help our channel
partners deliver more advanced solutions
that support their clients goals that also
include a move towards a more Zero Trust
approach to cybersecurity.”
As part of the new distribution
agreement, Inforte will run several
educational seminars and technical
workshops to update channel partners
around the expanded portfolio and new
products and services that will be launched
during 2020.
In addition, Inforte will work closely
with Pulse Secure to deliver an enhanced
programme of sales enablement, lead
generation and education, alongside a
certification programme update to ensure
partners have the skills to succeed.
Pulse Secure’s Zero Trust focus is
delivered with the Pulse Access Suites.
The suites provide remote, mobile, cloud,
network and application security with
comprehensive VPN, Mobile Device
Management (MDM), Single Sign-on (SSO),
endpoint and IOT device security, Network
Access Control (NAC) and virtual Application
Delivery Controller (ADC) functionality.
Pulse SDP is a suite add-on which
activates Software Defined Perimeter (SDP)
components within existing Pulse solutions
to provide direct device-to-application
trusted connectivity only after successful
user, device and security state verification.
This approach extends the company’s
foundation of Zero Trust access for hybrid
IT with enhanced usability, deployment
flexibility, automated provisioning and
resource optimisation.
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