OREANDA-NEWS. Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, today announced it has expanded its relationship with Stormshield into southern Europe to deliver quality cyber security solutions to partners in Italy and Spain.

This announcement builds on the relationship between Avnet and StormShield that has existed in France since 2012, enabling Avnet to deliver Stormshield’s end-to-end security solutions that protect networks, workstations and data to its partners and their end-users in a total of three countries.

Denis Fouquet, regional vice president for Avnet Technology Solutions EMEA’s south region, said, “With the rapid adoption of next generation technologies, security is the top priority for companies of any size. Stormshield has a very competitive security offering that addresses the needs of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as the enterprise market. Similarly to our successful strategy in France, our objective for Spain and Italy is to build and support a strong partner channel interested in a quality security solution.”

Eric Hohbauer, European sales director for Stormshield, commented, “We’re happy to be expanding our relationship with Avnet to Italy and Spain. Avnet’s security and networking team of experts and its wide partner base will be critical to helping us bring the Stormshield Network Security, Endpoint Security and Data Security solutions to a larger portfolio of customers. We have fine-tuned our value proposition for the channel with the local Avnet teams in the last months, and we are now ready to roll.”

With security being a key technology focus area for Avnet, the company launched its Security and Networking division in June 2014. Avnet continues to be focused on providing its partners with access to leading security solutions, enabling them to capitalise on this growth opportunity and bring reliable security solutions to their end-user customers.

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About Stormshield
Stormshield (Arkoon Netasq) offers innovative end-to-end security solutions worldwide to protect networks (Stormshield Network Security), workstations (Stormshield Endpoint Security) and data (Stormshield Data Security). These next-generation trusted solutions, certified at the highest level in Europe (EU RESTRICTED, NATO and ANSSI EAL4+), ensure the protection of strategic information and are deployed through a partner network of distributors, integrators and operators in businesses of all sizes, government institutions and defense organizations worldwide. 

About Avnet, Inc. 
From components to cloud and design to disposal, Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) accelerates the success of customers who build, sell and use technology globally by providing them with a comprehensive portfolio of innovative products, services and solutions. Avnet is a Fortune 500 company with revenues of $27.9 billion for the fiscal year 2015.