Thales Recognizes top Partners at 2011 Partner Conference with 2010 top Sales Performance Awards

Thales unveils new partner program and acknowledges channel partners for exceptional performance driving innovative data protection solutions that help customers meet compliance and adopt best practice security

WESTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Thales, leader in cryptography and key management security solutions, recently honored its top performing channel partners at the Thales 2011 Americas Annual Partner Conference Performance Awards ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Thales has long recognized the value of partnerships to deliver world class security solutions that satisfy critical customer requirements. As customers increasingly demand integrated and secure business solutions Thales works closely with its partners to design, market and deliver innovative and industry leading security solutions, tools and programs that enable businesses to protect and manage their critical business assets.

At the event Thales recognized its top channel partners in the Americas for their outstanding sales and revenue achievements for 2010. The new partner program is designed to help partners grow business in their respective markets with joint solutions that leverage Thales’s portfolio of data protection, key management and payment transaction hardware security platforms.

Presenting the awards, Cindy Provin, vice president of the Americas at Thales e-Security said “The constant stream of headlines about data breaches, weakened consumer confidence, tighter privacy regulation and increasingly targeted attacks makes security high on the business agenda. Our partner program is designed to support and reward our partners who are continuously developing their security expertise, as well as driving new sales opportunities. Our channel partners are a strategic part of Thales's business and a major contribution to our overall success. I am delighted to recognize and award our top performing partners across the Americas”.

The 2010 Thales Outstanding Sales Achievement Partner Performance Award winners are:

Accuvant, Inc

A research-driven information security partner, Accuvant aligns IT security and business objectives for both enterprise and government clients. Accuvant provides customers with a comprehensive and holistic approach to information security and is a major partner for Thales nShield and Datacryptor solutions.

Emagined Security

A leading provider of professional services for information security and compliance solutions and helps customers effectively manage IT risk with reliable and high-quality security alternatives to in-house resourcing. With deep industry expertise and a proven track record in financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, high tech, manufacturing, energy and insurance industries, Emagined Security partners with Thales to provide nShield hardware security modules (HSMs) to solve customer encryption challenges.

Envoy Data Corporation

A specialty distributor of IT security solutions and manufacturer of industrial storage products, Envoy Data works with resellers to provide competitive solutions to meet customers’ unique security challenges. Envoy Data helps ensure resellers are equipped to provide Thales nShield encryption solutions to customer via a two-tier business model.

First Tech Technologia Ltda.

A Thales partner for more than 15 years, First Tech specializes in voice and data solutions focusing on unified communications that can reduce the complexity of the network, increase its performance, security, flexibility and resilience.First Tech partners with Thales to integrate payShield HSMs for customer solutions.

Fishnet Security Corporation

Fishnet Security is the #1 provider of information security solutions that combine technology, services, support and training. Fishnet Security enables customers to manage risk, meet compliance requirements, and reduce costs while maximizing security effectiveness and operational efficiency. Fishnet partners with Thales to leverage nShield HSMs, Datacryptor and TEMS solution offerings for its customers.

Geobridge Corporation

Geobridge has partnered with Thales for more than 10 years and emerged as one of the first information security solutions providers to support cryptography and payment applications for payment processors, financial institutions and retail organizations. Today Geobridge is a leading provider of integration services and consultancy in the areas of encryption, network security, identity management, transaction security, and compliance and is a major channel for Thales nShield, payShield and Datacryptor solutions

Jack Henry

Jack Henry is a provider of the core and complementary solutions banks need to process financial transactions, automate business processes, and manage mission-critical information. Jack Henry manages mission-critical information for more than 8,700 financial institutions and corporate entities. Jack Henry, one of our key partners for CryptoStor, has now qualified Thales payShield 9000 into their portfolio of offerings. </p>

Operational Research Consultants (ORC)

Operational Research Consultants, a WidePoint company and trusted partner to the federal government, delivers information security solutions to government and enterprise customers, ensuring the fully compliant and trusted exchange and assurance of information. ORC has been a Thales partner for more than 10 years. Its solutions are interoperable with legacy systems and integrate seamlessly with all leading software applications on the market.

SeguriData

Dedicated to developing products and services allowing the flow of electronic transactions and secure, confidential, reliable and admissible information for customers in Latin America, SeguriData has a suite of products to enable digital signature infrastructure, certification authority, notary electronics and server validation of electronic signatures based on Thales’s payment HSMs to meet customer requirements.

Thales e-Security Partner Program

At the partner conference Thales announced the new Thales Partner Program aimed at building even stronger partnerships, providing new tools and programs to drive successful long-term partnerships, and rewarding partners for their investment. Each partner’s contribution is vital to our mutual success and our customers’ satisfaction. The program helps partners leverage Thales’s 40-year unrivalled security track record delivering best-in-class encryption and key management solutions for some of the most challenging customer requirements across the globe.

The program adds a new entry partnership level that rewards even smaller regional boutique partners who desire to deliver security solutions with Thales. Partners can start small and grow their business over time as their expertise and confidence grows, delivering proven security solutions based on Thales HSM solutions. The program offers all partners greater benefits and dedicated sales resources to help sell, new marketing tools and demand generation programs to help engage with customers, and technical support tools and knowledge transfer programs to ensure partners are equipped to present and deploy Thales’s security offering.

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About Thales e-Security

Thales e-Security is a leading global provider of data encryption solutions to the financial services, high technology manufacturing, government and technology sectors. With a 40-year track record of protecting corporate and government information, Thales solutions are used by four of the five largest energy and aerospace companies, 22 NATO countries, and they secure more than 80 percent of worldwide payment transactions. Thales e-Security has offices in France, Hong Kong, Norway, United States and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.thales-esecurity.com

About Thales Group

Thales is a global technology leader for the defence & security and the aerospace & transport markets. In 2010 the company generated revenues of €13.1 billion, with 68,000 employees in 50 countries. With its 22,500 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world working with customers as local partners. www.thalesgroup.com

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