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Asgent Receives “2015 Best Distribution Partner” Award for Largest Contribution to Distribution of Check Point Products in 2015

May 2, 2016
Asgent, Inc.
（JASDAQ: 4288）

Asgent, Inc. (President & CEO: Takahiro Sugimoto, located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo), a pioneer in network security and operations management solutions, received the “2015 Best Distribution Partner” award from Check Point Software Technologies (Japan) Ltd. (President: Peter Hallett, located in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) at the “Check Point Partner Day 2016” held on April 26, 2016.

【2015 Best Distribution Partner】

This award is given to the distributor with the high sales contribution throughout the year. This is the ninth straight time Asgent has received this award since 2007, and the thirteenth in total.

Check Point is a leading security company providing comprehensive security for gateways to endpoints. In particular, Check Point has an established reputation in firewalls and UTM devices, and captured the number one spot for global market sales share in FY2014 for firewalls and UTM appliances combined in the “IDC Worldwide Security Appliance Tracker” report (※1) published by IDC in March 2015. Also, in recent years, Check Point has continued to provide security functions to meet current needs, such as providing “SandBlast” as a solution to defend against unknown malware and targeted attacks that have been difficult to deal with using traditional security products.

Asgent, as a Check Point distributor, provides varied business options such as product sales, maintenance support, integration support and monitoring services etc. Asgent also provides “SecurityPlus Managed Security Services” to monitor operations of and report on security incidents for Check Point UTM products on a 24/7 basis for customers who either want to strengthen their security but don’t have specialist staff, or want to perform security operations without putting any additional burden on their corporate resources.

Asgent will continue to positively strengthen and expand sales of “Check Point Security Appliances”, the next generation of Check Point firewall appliances, while proactively domestically developing the market for “SandBlast”, the unknown malware and targeted attack solution.

※1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, March 12, 2015