Secerno Continues Global Expansion and Announces Distribution Partnership in South Africa

Secersa Becomes Secerno’s Distributor For Sub-Saharan Africa

Oxford, United Kingdom, 20th March 2009 - Secerno, the technology leader in data security, today announced a partnership with distributor Secersa to cover the sub Saharan African continent.

Secerno was selected by Secersa on the strength of its award-winning technology and market success to date.  This strategic partnership enables Secersa to offer database activity monitoring and database policy enforcement to its reseller base and their customers.   

Located in Pretoria, South Africa, Secersa will support the full Secerno lifecycle of pre-sales, workshops, configuration and implementation as well as continued support and maintenance. With a well established and experienced management team and many local successes in the region, Secersa is well placed to take advantage of the superb IT infrastructure in South Africa and together with Secerno they will target increasing levels of cybercrime.

Pieter Henstra, Secersa’s Sales Manager, said “I am pleased to have this opportunity to represent a leader in database security within Africa. We have recently seen an increase in the demand for sophisticated security following some data loss incidents locally. We are convinced that Secerno will become the platform of choice in Africa.”

Peter Simpson, Secerno’s Vice President of Alliances and Marketing, added, “I am delighted that Secerno’s market success has enabled us to focus so soon on new regions such as South Africa. This distribution partnership with Secersa allows Secerno’s products to reach another new market fast and we are pleased to be able to help them address this growing opportunity.”