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Specialist branches out with own firm.

Monday, May 03 2010

Steve Rielly establishes Katana Technologies.

IT security veteran Steve Rielly has established Auckland-based Katana Technologies, to represent vendors who want to establish a local presence.

Rielly has worked in networking and security for more than a decade, and was most recently a security consultant at distributor Chillisoft. Prior to that, he was business development manager for Symantec and before that a security consultant at Trend Micro.

He formed Katana Technologies last December and says he has since grown vendor partnerships from three to 10. The company will focus on working with startups and those who want to set themselves up in the country or the region, says Rielly.

“I started with two or three [vendors] but then it got around I was starting my own company. In some cases these vendors have had leads, but haven’t been able to service them,” he says.

His initial focus is on Palo Alto Networks, for which he is a local gold partner, and US-headquartered Bluecat Networks, which specialises in IP address, DNS and DHCP management. He will also be working with email security vendor Proofpoint and endpoint encryption specialist Wave Systems, adding both companies are well established overseas but not locally.

Rielly will name the other vendors as the business grows.

He adds some of the vendors he is working with have other partners locally, but claims these partners aren’t working actively on the vendors’ solutions. In some cases, Katana’s partnerships cover Australia and New Zealand.

Rielly believes he is the only local certified technologist for Palo Alto Networks, having completed its accredited engineer programme in December.

Palo Alto Networks’ ANZ sales director David Thrum says he is happy Katana has joined its NextWave partner programme. “Steve Rielly is a recognised visionary in the network security industry and his experience will help us expand the success of our next generation firewall technology in New Zealand,” says Thrum.

Katana Technologies is working closely with distributor Renaissance on the Palo Alto agency, Rielly says. He is currently the company’s sole employee.

http://www.katanatechnologies.net/products/

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Wave Systems is a leading provider of client and server software for hardware-based digital security, enabling organizations to know who is connecting to their critical IT infrastructure, protect corporate data, and strengthen the boundaries of their networks. Wave's core products are based around the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), the industry-standard hardware security chip that is included as standard equipment on most enterprise-class PCs shipping today.

A TPM is a highly secure cryptographic support system. It generates, stores and processes keys, which can be used to encrypt information and harden identities. It provides a broad range of security features, but because the TPM works independently of the operating system, it can serve as a "root of trust," verifying the integrity of the machine and user.