CA signs partnership agreement with Espion

Dublin, Ireland, Monday, 20 March 2006…Leading Security Specialist, Espion has entered in a partnership with CA to distribute its IT Security Threat Management Solutions. From March, Espion resellers will be able to avail of the award wining range of security products including eTrust® Pest Patrol, eTrust® Anti-Virus and eTrust® Secure Content Manager.

Jim Lehane, sales director with Espion, welcomed the addition of the CA products to Espion’s broad portfolio. “CA has more than a quarter of a century’s experience in developing management software,” he says. “Harnessing this knowledge for IT security has resulted in a range of very powerful CA products. In particular, we feel that our resellers who sell into the enterprise market will find their customers eager to hear about the solutions available.”

CA is one of the world’s largest information technology (IT) management software companies. Its eTrust® Security Management solutions enable companies to proactively manage their entire security environment so they can focus on their core business. eTrust is the trusted advisor in security management that helps customers achieve business efficiencies, ensure continuous operations, enforce security policies and comply with regulations.   

David Dunne, distribution manager for CA in Ireland, welcomed the partnership with Espion. “Espion has proven itself to be the leading distributor of dedicated IT security products and training in the Irish market and we are delighted to be able to work with them going forward. We see a good match between our products and their expertise.”

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About CA

CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world’s largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com.

About Espion

Espion Ltd, a wholly owned Irish company established in 2001, is the leading value added distributor and supplier of best-of-breed new security technology products and services distributed through a network of resellers and partners.

Espion is committed to a channel focused business model working with our channel partners to deliver the best security solutions and professional services to their clients.

Espion is also responsible for the Irish Honeynet a research project which, monitors and reports on the number of hacking incidents against a number of computers presented anonymously to the internet. This project is an attempt to learn the tools, tactics, and motives of the blackhat community and share those lessons learnt as well as to qualify the hype and provide an Irish perspective with local knowledge and yet participate in a global initiative.