StarLink appointed as a Symantec Value-added Distributor for the Middle East

Largest regional IT Security distributor partners with industry’s largest Pure Play Cyber Security Company

Monday, May 22, 2017 - Dubai, UAE - StarLink, the region's trusted security-specialized "True" Value-Added-Distributor (VAD), today announced that they have been appointed as a VAD for Symantec in the Middle East region. As a platform-independent software company without bias to an individual operating system or hardware environment, Symantec helps customers manage more technologies with greater efficiency, on more platforms – even in virtual environments – than any other company. With multi-platform software and a worldwide delivery and support infrastructure, Symantec helps customers optimize technology investments throughout their lifetimes.

StarLink is acclaimed as the largest value-added distributor of IT security solutions across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. StarLink’s extensive partner and customer base in the Middle East will now have access to Symantec's market leading Enterprise product range.

Nidal Othman, Managing Director at StarLink said, "This exciting new business relationship is an organic one, with Symantec’s acquisition of BlueCoat. Following the success we previously achieved with Blue Coat, we are glad to be part of Symantec’s journey in establishing itself as the industry’s largest pure play cyber security company, and we are committed to work together with our channel to help realize our collective goal of, ‘Defining the Future of CyberSecurity’.