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Interactive Ideas expand infrastructure monitoring solutions with Athena Security

Joint SolarWinds and Athena solution ideal for firewall management

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 — Enfield — Interactive Ideas one of the UK's leading value-added software and technology distributor, has been named distributor for the UK & EMEA territories for US based software company, Athena Security.,

Athena Security have partnered with SolarWinds to integrate Athena FirePAC with the SolarWinds Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) product to offer the most operations-friendly firewall management solution anywhere. Using these two products together provides the safety of daily backups and configuration change monitoring plus intelligence for determining the most optimal changes. The combination is more powerful, affordable and flexible than what can be done with typical firewall vendor management consoles.

Michael Trup, Interactive Ideas Managing Director commented "We are delighted to be partnering with Athena Security; our aim is to constantly bring new revenue opportunities to our customers. Athena Security has proven quality products within the USA and growing demand across the UK and EMEA."

Continues "The partnership between Athena and SolarWinds makes this an ideal fit within our solutions. We have a team of 3 people dedicated to SolarWinds. The combination of Athena and SolarWinds is more powerful, affordable and flexible than what you can do with typical firewall vendor management consoles and creates an additional revenue opportunity for our reseller channel."

"This partnership comes in response to strong demand for Athena's solutions across all regions and markets. We are very pleased to tap the deep network of channels established by Interactive Ideas, our newest global distributor partner. The team takes care to select complimentary solutions where knowledge, relationships and expertise can be fully leveraged", says Anjali Gurnani, VP Business Development at Athena Security.

About Interactive Ideas:

Interactive Ideas is a leading value-added distributor of Software and Technology products, establishing themselves in the competitive IT industry by providing excellent customer service, proactively working with their partners and being able to identify emerging technologies.

Structured into two divisions; The software solutions team work with resellers, ISV's and systems integrators to provide software solutions, licensing and enterprise Linux. Providing value-added services to support the channel in delivering cost saving and innovative solutions to their customers. The retail team offers a specialist service dedicated to online retailers and providing them the value added services their business require and vendors need to maximise sales through the online retail channel

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About Athena Security

In a world where controlling technology costs are paramount, Athena is the only solution provider to offer enterprise firewall analytics and remediation in a collection of focused tools. Customers configure Athena FirePAC towards requirements that are specifically operations, security or complianceoriented and pay only for what is needed. With a global customer base of several hundred Banking, Insurance, Retail, Healthcare, Energy, Utilities and US Federal Sector enterprises and thousands of users across a suite of products, Athena is constantly innovating the range of solutions it offers to drive more intelligent firewall and network management. From data center migration to policy optimization, Athena aims to be the most affordable and flexible choice for network and security engineers. For more information see agurnani@athenasecurity.net

Dan Chmielewski
Madison Alexander PR for Athena Security
Phone: 714-832-8716
dchm@madisonalexanderpr.com