Akibia Wins RSA SecurWorld™ East Partner of the Year Award
Akibia Recognized for Strength of Partnership and Customer Success in the US
November 19, 2008
Westborough, MA – November 19, 2008 — Akibia, a leading independent IT services firm providing data center and network security solutions, announced today that it has received the RSA® SecurWorld Partner of the Year award for the Eastern United States from RSA, The Security Division of EMC.
RSA highlighted Akibia’s “continuous ability to perform” supporting the entire suite of RSA security products and bringing compelling security solutions to its expanding customer base. Over the course of the ten year channel partnership Akibia and RSA have developed working processes that help ensure evolving customer demands are met quickly and effectively. Akibia’s team of RSA certified engineers leverage best practices developed over hundreds of engagements to ensure a seamless implementation that improves the customer’s security posture while achieving compliance with industry regulations, and limiting risk.
“With a focus on addressing the unique challenges of each customer, Akibia works to deliver best-in-class solutions that will solve real world challenges related to data loss prevention, security information and event management, and identity management,” said Anthony D’Angelo, director, Channel Sales, RSA, The Security Division of EMC. “RSA’s solutions are engineered to successfully solve these challenges, resulting in significant success, for the customer as well as Akibia and RSA. We are excited to recognize Akibia’s accomplishments with the RSA East Partner of the Year Award.”
Akibia’s Network and Security solutions group helps customers develop and implement a complete security strategy that incorporates proven technology solutions, policies, expertise, processes and procedures. As an independent, trusted advisor to its customers, Akibia partners with best-in-breed technology providers like RSA to deliver innovative network and security solutions designed to mitigate IT risk, reduce vulnerability and meet industry compliance requirements.
“We are honored to be recognized by RSA as the East Partner of the Year,” said Tom Tucker, president of Akibia. “As organizations face sophisticated external threats and both malicious and unintentional internal threats, our customers increasingly seek Akibia’s insight regarding the best security solutions. Akibia and RSA are able to solve these challenges for our customers with best-in-class solutions for data loss prevention and security information and event management.”
About Akibia, Inc.
Akibia provides innovative IT solutions that enable leading companies worldwide to optimize, secure, manage and support their mission-critical infrastructure. As an independent advisor, Akibia partners with its customers to deliver solutions that improve the availability and performance of their data center and security infrastructure. Combining expert consulting, integration and support services with world-class customer service, Akibia helps IT organizations maximize the value of their existing infrastructure, while mitigating risk and reducing complexity. Founded as Polaris Service in 1988 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Akibia is an independent services company with offices throughout the United States and Europe.
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